The results of Faraday experiments with concentric spheres can be summed up as an experimental law by stating that the electric flux passing through any imaginary sphere placed between two conducting sphere is equal to the charge enclosed within the surface of imaginary sphere. This enclosed charge is distributed either on the surface of the imaginary sphere or is located at a point at the center of the imaginary sphere.
However since 1 C of charge produces 1 C of electric flux, the inner conductor might just well have been a cube or a pot shaped conductor, but still the charge on the outer sphere will be the same. Of Course the flux density would change from its symmetrical distribution to an unknown configuration, but +Q C on any inner conductor will induced a –Q C of charge on surrounding sphere. Going a step further replacing outer sphere with a cylindrical conductor and inner sphere with a pot shaped conductor with charge Q. Producing Flux = Q C the induced charge in the cylindrical conductor will be –Q C. How Fascinating right??
This generalization lead to many developments one of them is discussed later in the next post. All the experiments performed by faraday on electromagnetism is a must read for every engineer. He gave us modern electromagnetics which is used almost in every hardware. I would try to post all his experiments, conclusions and generalization details on the site but self reading is the best reading.
The post here under category Electromagnetics is taken from my college blog. They are updated here first by me then brought to this site again by me.
However since 1 C of charge produces 1 C of electric flux, the inner conductor might just well have been a cube or a pot shaped conductor, but still the charge on the outer sphere will be the same. Of Course the flux density would change from its symmetrical distribution to an unknown configuration, but +Q C on any inner conductor will induced a –Q C of charge on surrounding sphere. Going a step further replacing outer sphere with a cylindrical conductor and inner sphere with a pot shaped conductor with charge Q. Producing Flux = Q C the induced charge in the cylindrical conductor will be –Q C. How Fascinating right??
This generalization lead to many developments one of them is discussed later in the next post. All the experiments performed by faraday on electromagnetism is a must read for every engineer. He gave us modern electromagnetics which is used almost in every hardware. I would try to post all his experiments, conclusions and generalization details on the site but self reading is the best reading.
The post here under category Electromagnetics is taken from my college blog. They are updated here first by me then brought to this site again by me.
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