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Introduction
\problem1*

A capacitor C, an inductor L, and a resistor R are in series, driven by the voltage v(t) and carrying the current i(t). With vc defined as the voltage across the capacitor, show that vi = dw/dt + i2 R where w = fraction GIF #28 C vc2 + 1\over 2 Li2. Argue that w is the energy stored in the inductor and capacitor, while i2 R is the power dissipated in the resistor.

 

Integral and Differential Conservation Statements

11.1.1*Consider a system in which the fields are y and/or z directed and independent of y and z. Then S = Sx (x, t)ix, W = W(x, t), and Pd = Pd(x, t).

and located between x = x1 and x = x2, (1) becomes

equation GIF #11.248
(a) Show that for a volume having area A in any y - z plane
(b) Take the limit where x1 - x2 = x 0 and show that the one-dimensional form of (3) results.
(c) Based on (a), argue that Sx is the power flux density in the x direction.
 

Poynting's Theorem

11.2.1*The perfectly conducting plane parallel electrodes of Fig. 13.1.1 are driven at the left by a voltage source Vd (t) and are ``open circuit'' at the right, as shown in Fig. 13.1.4. The system is EQS.

y/a2)Vd dVd/dt.

(a) Show that the power flux density is S = iy (-o
(b) Using S, show that the power input is d(fraction GIF #29 CVd2)/dt, where C = o b w/a.
(c) Evaluate the right-hand side of (11.1.1) to show that if the magnetic energy storage is neglected, the same result is obtained.
(d) Show that the magnetic energy storage is indeed negligible if b/c is much shorter than times of interest.

11.2.2The perfectly conducting plane parallel electrodes of Fig. 13.1.1 are driven at the left by a current source Id(t), as shown in Fig. 13.1.3. The system is MQS.

(a) Determine S.
(b) From S, find the input power.
(c) Evaluate the right-hand side of (11.1.1) for a volume enclosing the region between the electrodes, and show that if the electric energy storage is neglected, it is indeed equal to the left-hand side.
(d) Under what conditions is the electric energy storage negligible?
 

Ohmic Conductors with Linear Polarization and Magnetization

11.3.1*In Example 7.3.2, a three-dimensional dipole current source drives circulating currents through a uniformly conducting material. This source is so slowly varying with time that time rates of change have a negligible effect. Consider first the power flow as pictured in terms of the Poynting flux density, (3).

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(a) Show that
(b) Show that
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(c) Using these results, show that (11.1.3) is indeed satisfied.

(d) Now, using the alternative EQS power theorem, evaluate S as given by (23) and again show that (11.1.3) is satisfied.
(e) Observe that the latter evaluation is much simpler to carry out and that the latter power flux density is easier to picture.
11.3.2Coaxial perfectly conducting circular cylindrical electrodes make contact with a uniformly conducting material of conductivity in the annulus b < r < a, as shown in Fig. P11.3.2. The length l is large compared to a. A voltage source v drives the system at the left, while the electrodes are ``open'' at the right. Assume that v(t) is so slowly varying that the voltage can be regarded as independent of z.

floating figure GIF #46
in the annulus.
(a) Determine E, , and H
(b) Evaluate the Poynting power flux density S [as given by (3)] in the annulus.
(c) Use S to evaluate the total power dissipation by integration over the surface enclosing the annulus.
(d) Show that the same result is obtained by integrating Pd over the volume.
(e) Evaluate S as given by (23), and use that distribution of the power flux density to determine the total power dissipation.
(f) Make sketches of the alternative distributions of S.
(g) Show that the input power is vi, where i is the total current from the voltage source.

11.3.3*A pair of perfectly conducting circular plates having a spacing d form parallel electrodes in a system having cylindrical symmetry about the z axis and the cross-section shown by Fig. P11.3.3. The central region between the plates is filled out to the radius b by a uniformly conducting material having conductivity and uniform permittivity , while the surrounding region, where b < r < a, is free space. A distributed voltage source v(t) constrains the potential difference between the outer edges of the electrodes. Assume that the system is EQS.
equation GIF #11.251
(a) Show that the Poynting power flux density is
(b) Integrate this flux density over a surface enclosing the region between the plates, and show that it is equal to the sum of the rate of change of electric energy storage and the power dissipation.
(c) Now show that the alternative power flux density given by (23) is
equation GIF #11.252
(d) Carry out part (b) using this distribution of S, and show that the result is the same.
(e) Show that the power input is equal to vi, where i is the total current from the voltage source.

floating figure GIF #47
11.3.4In Example 7.5.1, the steady current distribution in and around a conducting circular cylindrical rod immersed in a conducting material was determined. Assume that Eo is so slowly varying that it can be regarded as static. flux density S, as given by (3).
(a) Determine the distribution of Poynting power
(b) Determine the alternative S given by (23).
(c) Find the power dissipation density Pd in and around the rod.
(d) Show that the differential energy conservation law [(11.1.3) with W/ t = 0] is satisfied at each point in and around the rod using either of these distributions of S.

 

Energy Storage

11.4.1*In Example 8.5.1, the inductance L of a spherically shaped coil was found by ``adding up'' the flux linkages of the individual windings. Taking an alternative approach to finding L, use the fields found in that example to determine the total energy storage, wm. Then use the fact that wm = fraction GIF #30 Li2 to show that L is as given by (8.5.20).

11.4.2In Prob. 9.6.3, a coil has turns at the interface between a magnetizable material and a circular cylindrical core of free space, as shown in Fig. P9.6.3. Assume that the system has a length l in the z direction and determine the total energy, wm. (Assume that the rotatable coil carries no current.) Use the fact that wm = fraction GIF #31 L i2 to find L.

11.4.3*In Example 8.6.4, the fields of a coil distributed throughout a volume were found. Using these fields to evaluate the total energy storage, show that the inductance is as given by (8.6.35). 11.4.4The magnetic circuit described in Prob. 9.7.5 and shown in Fig. P9.7.5 has two electrical excitations. Determine the total magnetic coenergy, w'm (i1, i2, x).

11.4.5The cross-section of a motor or generator is shown in Fig. 11.7.7.

the total coenergy wm'.
(a) Determine the magnetic coenergy density Wm', and hence
(b) By writing wm' in the form of (11.4.24), determine L11, L12, and L22.
11.4.6*The material in the system of Fig. 11.4.3 has the constitutive law of (28). Show that the total coenergy is

equation GIF #11.253
11.4.7Consider the system shown in Fig. P9.5.1 but with a = o and the region where B = b H now filled with a material having the constitutive law
equation GIF #11.254
(a) Determine B and H in each region.
(b) Find the coenergy density in each region and hence the total coenergy wm' as a function of the driving current i.

 

Electromagnetic Dissipation

11.5.1*In Example 7.9.2, the Maxwell capacitor has an area A (perpendicular to x), and the terminals are driven by a source v = Re [\hat v \exp (j t)]. The sinusoidal steady state has been established. Show that the time average power dissipation in the lossy dielectrics is
equation GIF #11.255
11.5.2In Example 7.9.3, the potential is found in the EQS approximation in and around a lossy dielectric sphere embedded in a lossy dielectric and stressed by a uniform field having a sinusoidal dependence on time (7.9.36). region.
(a) Find the time average power dissipation density in each
(b) What is the total time average power dissipated in the sphere?
11.5.3*Plane parallel perfectly conducting plates having the spacing d are shorted by a perfectly conducting sheet in the plane x = 0, as shown in Fig. P11.5.3. A sheet having thickness and conductivity is in the plane x = -b and makes contact with the perfectly conducting plates above and below. At their left edges, in the plane x = -(a + b), a source of surface current density, K(t), is connected to the plates. The regions to left and right of the resistive sheet are free space, and w is large compared to a, b, and d.
figure GIF #1
stored as defined on the right in (11.1.1), are
equation GIF #11.256
(a) Show that the total power dissipation and magnetic energy
(b) Show that the integral on the left in (11.1.1) over the surface indicated by the dashed line in the figure gives the same result as found in part (a).

11.5.4In Example 10.4.1, the applied field is Ho (t) = Hm cos ( t) and sinsuoidal steady state conditions prevail. Determine the time average power dissipation in the conducting sheet.
figure GIF #2
11.5.5*The cross-section of an N-turn circular solenoid having radius a is shown in Fig. P11.5.5. It surrounds a thin cylindrical shell of square cross-section, with length b on a side. This shell has thickness and conductivity , and is filled by a material having permeability . Both the shell and the solenoid have a length d perpendicular to the paper that is large compared to a. current i1 = io cos t and the sinusoidal steady state has been established, integrate the time average power dissipation density over the volume of the shell to show that the total time-average power dissipation is
equation GIF #11.257
(a) Given that the terminals of the solenoid are driven by the
(b) In the sinusoidal steady state, the time average Poynting flux through a surface enclosing the shell goes into the time average dissipation. Use this fact to obtain (a).

11.5.6In describing the response of macroscopic media to fields in the sinusoidal steady state, it is convenient to use complex constitutive laws. The complex permittivity is introduced by (19). Here we introduce and illustrate the complex permeability. Suppose that field quantities take the form
equation GIF #11.258
density, the MQS laws require that
equation GIF #11.259
equation GIF #11.260
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(a) Show that in a region where there is no macroscopic current
(c) Given that the spherical shell of Prob. 10.4.3 comprises each element in the cubic array of Fig. P11.5.6, each sphere with spacing s such that s \gg R, what is the complex permeability defined such that \hat B = \hat \hat H?
(d) A macroscopic material composed of this array of spheres is placed in the one-turn solenoid of rectangular cross-section shown in Fig. P11.5.6. This configuration is long enough in the z direction so that fringing fields can be ignored. At their left edges, the perfectly conducting plates composing the top and bottom of the solenoid are driven by a distributed current source, K(t). With the fringing fields in the neighborhood of the left end ignored, the resulting fields take the form H = Hz (x, t) iz and E = Ey (x, t)iy. Use an evaluation of the Poynting flux to determine the total time average power dissipated in the length l, width d, and height a of the material.
floating figure GIF #48
11.5.7*In the limit where the skin depth is small compared to the length b, the magnetic field distribution in the conductor of Fig. 10.7.2 is given by (10.7.15). Show that (per unit y - z area) the time average power dissipation associated with the current flowing in the ``skin'' region is |Ks|2/2 watts/m2.

11.5.8The conducting block shown in Fig. 10.7.2 has a length d in the z direction.
(a) Determine the total time average power dissipation.
(b) Show that in the case \ll b this expression reduces to that obtained in Prob. 11.5.7, while in the limit \gg b, the result is i2R where R is the dc resistance of the slab and i is the total current.

11.5.9*The toroid of Fig. 9.4.1 is filled with an insulating material having the magnetization constitutive law of Prob. 9.4.3. Show that from the terminals of the N1-turn coil, the circuit is equivalent to one having an inductance L = o N12 w2 /8R in series with a resistance Rm = o N12 w2/8R.

11.5.10The toroid of Fig. 9.4.1 is filled by a material having the magnetization characteristic shown in Fig. P11.5.10. A sinusoidal current is supplied with a particular amplitude, i = (2Hc 2 R/N1) cos ( t).

figure GIF #3
(a) Draw a dimensioned plot of B(t).
(b) Find the terminal voltage v(t) and also make a dimensioned plot.
(c) Compute the time average power input, defined as
equation GIF #11.262
where T = 2 /.
(d) Show that the result of part (c) can also be found by recognizing that, during one cycle, there is an energy/unit volume dissipated which is equal to the area enclosed by the B-H characteristic.

 

Electrical Forces on Macroscopic Media

11.6.1*A pair of perfectly conducting plates, the upper one fixed and the lower one free to move with the horizontal displacement , have a fixed spacing a as shown in Fig. P11.6.1. Show that the force of electrical origin acting on the lower electrode in the direction is f = - o v2 d/2a.

figure GIF #4
11.6.2In Example 4.6.3, the capacitance per unit length of the pair of parallel circular cylindrical conductors shown in Fig. 4.6.6 was found. Determine the force per unit length acting on the right cylinder in the x direction.

11.6.3*The electric transducer shown in cross-section by Fig. P11.6.3 has cylindrical symmetry about the center line. A coaxial pair of perfectly conducting electrodes having length l are excited at the left end by a voltage source v(t). A perfectly insulating dielectric material having permittivity is free to slide in and out of the annular region between electrodes.

figure GIF #5
dielectric material in the axial direction is f = v2 ( - o )/ln (a/b).
(a) Show that the force of electric origin acting on the
(b) Show that if the electrical terminals are constrained by the circuit shown, R is very small and the plunger suffers the displacement (t) the output voltage is vo = -2 RV( - o )(d /dt)/ln (a/b).

11.6.4The electrometer movement shown in Fig. P11.6.4 consists of concentric, perfectly conducting tubes, the inner one free to move in the axial direction. force of electrical origin acting in the direction of .
(a) Ignore the fringing field and determine the
(b) For the energy conversion cycle of Demonstration 11.6.1, but for this transducer, make dimensioned plots of the cycle in the (q, v) and (f, ) planes (analogous to those of Fig. 11.6.5).
(c) By calculating both, show that the electrical energy input in one cycle is equal to the work done on the external mechanical system.
floating figure GIF #49
11.6.5*Show that the vertical force on the nonlinear dielectric material of Prob. 11.4.6 is
equation GIF #11.263
 

Macroscopic Magnetic Fields

11.7.1*Show that the force acting in the x direction on the movable element of Prob. 9.7.5 (Note Prob. 11.4.4.) is
equation GIF #11.264
11.7.2Determine the force f(i, ) acting in the x direction on the plunger of the magnetic circuit shown in Fig. P9.7.6.

floating figure GIF #50
11.7.3*The magnetic transducer shown in Fig. P11.7.3 consists of a magnetic circuit in which the lower element is free to move in the x and y directions. From the energy principle, ignoring fringing fields, show that the force on this element is
equation GIF #11.265
11.7.4The magnetic circuit shown in cross-section by Fig. P11.7.4 has cylindrical symmetry. A plunger of permeability having outer and inner radii a and b can suffer a displacement into the annular gap of a magnetic circuit otherwise made of infinitely permeable material. The coil has N turns. Assume that the left end of the plunger is well within the magnetic circuit, so that fringing fields can be ignored, and determine the force f(i, ) acting to displace the plunger in the direction.

floating figure GIF #51
11.7.5*The ``variable reluctance'' motor shown in cross-section in Fig. P11.7.5 consists of an infinitely permeable yoke and an infinitely permeable rotor element forming a magnetic circuit with two air gaps of length \ll R. The system has depth d \gg \Delta into the paper. Assume that 0 < < , as shown, and show that the torque caused by passing a current i through the two N-turn coils is = - o Rd N2 i2/.

floating figure GIF #52
11.7.6A ``two-phase'' synchronous machine is constructed having a cross-section like that shown in Fig. 11.7.7, except that there is an additional winding on the stator. This is identical to the one shown except that it is rotated 90 degrees in the clockwise direction. The current in the stator winding shown in Fig. 11.7.7 is denoted by ia, while that in the additional winding is ib. Thus, the magnetic axes of ia and ib, respectively, are upward and to the right. With Ls, Lr, and M given constants, the inductance matrix is
equation GIF #11.266
(a) Determine the coenergy wm' (ia, ib, ).
(b) Find the torque on the rotor, (ia, ib, ).

(c) With ia = I cos ( t) and ib = I sin ( t), where I and are given constants, argue that the magnetic axis produced by the stator rotates with the angular velocity .

(d) Using these current constraints together with ir = Ir and = \Omega t - , where Ir, and \Omega are constants, show that under synchronous conditions (where = \Omega), the torque is = MI Ir sin ( ).

 

Forces on Microscopic Electric and Magnetic Dipoles

11.8.1*In a uniform electric field E, a perfectly conducting particle having radius R has a dipole moment p = 4 o R3 E. Provided that R is short compared to distances over which the field varies, this gives a good approximation to p, even where the field is not uniform. Such a particle is shown at the location x = X, y = Y in Fig. P11.8.1, where it is subject to the field produced by a periodic potential = Vo cos ( x) imposed in the plane y = 0.

Vo cos ( x) exp (- y).
(a) Show that the potential imposed in the region 0 < y is
(b) Show that, provided that the particle has no net charge, the force on the particle is
equation GIF #11.267

figure GIF #6
11.8.2The perfectly conducting particle described in Prob. 11.8.1, carrying no net charge but polarized by the imposed electric field, is subjected to the field of a charge Q located at the origin of a spherical coordinate system. In terms of its location R relative to the charged particle at the origin, determine the force on the particle.

figure GIF #7
11.8.3*In Fig. P11.8.3, permanent magnets in the lower half-space are represented by the magnetization density M = Mo cos ( x)iy, where Mo and are given positive constants.

the upper half-space is

equation GIF #11.268
(a) Show that the resulting magnetic potential in
(b) A small infinitely permeable particle having the radius R is located at x = X, y = Y. Show that the magnetization force on the particle is as given by (a) of Prob. 11.8.1, with Vo (Mo/2 ) and o \rightarrow o.

11.8.4A small ``infinitely permeable'' particle of radius R is a distance Z above an infinitely permeable plane, as shown in Fig. P11.8.4. A uniform field H = Ho iz is imposed. Assume that R \ll Z, and use (27) to approximate the dipole moment induced in the particle. The effect of the infinitely permeable plane on the field induced by this dipole is equivalent to that of a second image dipole located at z = -Z. Thus, there is a force of attraction between the magnetized particle and the infinite plane that is equivalent to that attracting the dipole to its image. Determine the force in the z direction on the particle.
floating figure GIF #53
 

Macroscopic Force Densities

11.9.1In Prob. 11.7.2, the total force on a magnetizable plunger is found (Fig. P9.7.6). Find this same force by integrating the force density, (14), over the volume of the plunger. 11.9.2*In Example 10.3.1, the transient current induced by applying a magnetic field intensity Ho to a conducting shell is determined.

acting on the shell Tr = o K(Ho + Hi)/2. (Note that the thin-shell model implies that H varies in an essentially linear fashion with R inside the shell.)
(a) Show that there is a radial magnetic force per unit area
(b) Specifically, show that
equation GIF #11.269
11.9.3In Example 10.4.1, the transient current induced in a conducting shell by the application of a transverse magnetic field is found. Suppose that the magnetizable core is absent.

shell is Tr = o K(Ho + Hi)/2. (Note that according to the thin-shell model, H has an essentially linear dependence on r within the shell.)
(a) Show that the radial force per unit area acting on the
(b) Determine Tr ( ,t) and relate the result to Demonstration 10.4.1.

*********-here Hold on to this material for now (8-1-86). It may be used in Chapter 15.

The third objective of this chapter has been to see the quasistatic approximations from the perspective of electrodynamics. This began in Sec. 12.2 with the consideration of the turn-on transient of an electric dipole. It continued in Sec. 12.5 with a study of the sinusoidal steady state standing waves on the parallel plate transmission line. In the low frequency limit

@eq[s=0.2,n=15] an "open-circuit" termination resulted in a capacitor while with the "short-circuit" termination the system took on the characteristics of an inductor. These limiting cases were found in Sec. 12.6 by respectively making the EQS and MQS approximations at the outset. That section concluded with a formal procedure for making the quasistatic approximations in systems composed of perfect conductors and perfect insulators. The EQS and MQS approximations were identified as the lowest order fields in a time-rate-parameter expansion.

In materials of finite conductivity, additional processes that depend on the time-rate-of-change contribute to the distribution of the fields. Because fields are not only influenced by material properties, length scales and time scales but by the topology as well, there is no simple procedure for identifying quasistatic systems or subsystems. However, for systems having all relevant dimensions of the same order, typically of length @s[L], it was shown in Sec. 12.8 that a rough idea of the relevant physical processes that could occur on a time scale @g[t] could be obtained by considering the subsystems position in the @s[L]-@g[t] plane. A summary of regimes for electromagnetic subsystems having one characteristic length @s[L] and composed of linear materials is shown in Fig. 12.9.1. The length scale has been normalized to the matching length @s[L]@+[@m[8]] defined by Eq. 13 while the characteristic time @g[t] has been normalized to the charge relaxation time /@g[s]. Thus, the lines demarking the regimes are

@eq[s=0.6,n=15] For a simple system having one characteristic length to be quasistatic we must have @g[t]@-[em]@s[ @s[L] is large compared to @s[L]@+[@m[8]] and EQS if @s[L] is small compared to @s[L]@+[@m[8]].

-here But surely the difference between the magnetic force density of Lorentz and Kelvin

equation GIF #11.270
we have derived here and the Korteweg-Helmholtz force density for incompressible media
equation GIF #11.271
is not due to interactions between microscopic particles. This latter force density is often obtained for an incompressible material energy arguments. (Note that, with - and H H respectively playing the roles of dL/d and i2, the magnetization term in (14) takes a form found for the force on a magnetizable material in Sec. 11.7.) In Example 11.9.2 (where J = 0), we found the force density of (13) to be confined to the fringing field. By contrast, (14) gives no force density in the fringing region (where is uniform) but rather puts it all at the interface. According to this latter equation, through the agent of a surface force density (a force density that is a spatial impulse at the interface) the field pulls upward on the interface.

Even though the force densities of (13) and (14) have very different distributions, they predict the same height of rise of the liquid! This is because the liquid deformations being considered are essentially incompressible, in the sense that, (with v denoting the liquid velocity) v = 0 \footnote*Solids can also deform in an essentially incompressible fashion. An example is the low frequency motion of jello or muscle.. In the force equation representing an incompressible material, there will always be another force density taking the form p, where the pressure p assumes whatever distribution it must to insure that the deformations are incompressible. As a result, contributions to the force density that take the form will have no effect on the incompressible deformations. The contribution of is simply balanced by that due to p.

For a magnetically linear material (o M = ( = \mo )H) the force densities of (13) and (14 do indeed only differ by a term taking the form . To see this, use a vector identity


A A = (\nabla x A) x A + fraction GIF #32 A A
to write (13) as
equation GIF #11.272
The MQS form of Ampère's law makes it possible to substitute J for x H in this expression, which then becomes
equation GIF #11.273
The second term in this expression is then expanded using a second vector identity \footnote* x (\Psi A) = \Psi \nabla A + A \cdot
equation GIF #11.274
This expression differs from (14) by the last term, which indeed takes the form where
equation GIF #11.275
Thus, although they have very different distributions, the force densities of (13) and (14) will predict the same incompressible deformations of a material. Will the integration of these two force densities over the volume of an object result in two different total forces? Provided that the object is surrounded by media having the properties of free space, the answer is no. This is because the integral over the volume of the force density by which the two differ is zero. To see this, consider the x component (say) of that integral.

equation GIF #11.276
With the objective of converting this volume integral to one over the enclosing surface, we write this expression in the equivalent form
equation GIF #11.277
It follows from Gauss' Theorem that the volume integral on V is equivalent to one over the enclosing surface S.

equation GIF #11.278
With the surface S taken as enclosing an object surrounded by free space, = o on S and is zero everywhere on S. We conclude that integration of either (13) or (14) over the volume will give the same total force. In summary, if an object is surrounded by free space, integration over its volume of two force densities that differ by the gradient of a scalar that is zero in free space will result in the same net force.

Example 11.10.3. Magnetic Force on a Magnetizable Current Carrying Material

A block of conducting material having permeability is shown in Fig. 11.9.6 sandwiched between perfectly conducting plates. A current source, distributed over the left edges of these electrodes, drives a constant surface current density K in the +x direction along the left edge of the lower electrode. This current passes through the block in the y direction as a current density
floating figure GIF #54
equation GIF #11.279
and is returned to the source in the -x direction at the left edge of the upper electrode. The thickness a of the block is small compared to its other two dimensions, so the magnetic field between the electrodes is z directed and dependent only on x. From Ampère's law it follows that
equation GIF #11.280
in the conducting block.

The alternative force densities, (13) and (14), have very different distributions in the block. Yet, we must find that the net force on the block found by integrating each over its volume is the same. To see that this is so consider first the sum of the Lorentz and Kelvin force densities, (13).

There is no x component of the magnetic field intensity, so for this particular configuration, the magnetization term makes no contribution to (13). Evaluation of the first term using (22) and (23) then gives

equation GIF #11.281
Integration of this force density over the volume amounts to a multiplication by the cross-sectional area ab and integration on x.

equation GIF #11.282
Now, the force density given by (14) is evaluated. The permeability is uniform throughout the interior of the block, so the magnetization term is again zero there. However, is a step function at the ends of the block, where x = -b and x = 0. Thus, is an impulse there and we must take care to include the contributions from the surface regions in our integration. Evaluation of the x component of (14) using (22) and (23) gives
equation GIF #11.283
Note that Hz is K at x = -b and is zero at x = 0. Integration of (26) over the volume of the block therefore gives

equation GIF #11.284
Note that Hz is constant through the interface at x = -b. So, the integration of the last term can be carried out. Simplification of this expression gives the same total force as found before, (25).

The distributions of the force densities given by (13) and (14) are generally different, even very different. It is natural to therefore ask which of the two is the ``right'' one. In general, until the ``other'' force densities acting on the medium in question are specified, this question cannot be answered. Here, where a discussion of continuum mechanics is beyond our purvue, we have identified a class of mechanical continua (namely incompressible materials), where these force densities are equally valid. In fact so would any other force density differing from these by a term having the form . The combined Lorentz and Kelvin force densities have the advantage of a satisfying physical interpretation. However, the derivation has the weakness of making an ``ad hoc'' use of the macroscopic fields. Force densities resulting from an energy argument have the advantage of dealing rigorously with the macroscopic fields. The form illustrated by (14) also has the advantage of concentrating the magnetization force density at interfaces. For example, it is then clear that the height to which the liquid rises in the experiment of Fig. 11.9.4 depends on the field intensity at the interface and not on the details of the fringing field!

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11.11 Macroscopic Force Densities

A macroscopic force density f(r ) is the force per unit volume acting on a medium in the neighborhood of r. Fundamentally, the electromagnetic force density is the result of forces acting on those microscopic particles embedded in the material that are charged, or that have electric or magnetic dipole moments. The understanding is that the forces acting on these individual particles is passed along through interparticle forces to the macroscopic material as a whole. In the limit where that volume becomes small, the force density can then be regarded as the sum of the microscopic forces over a volume element V.

equation GIF #11.285
Of course, the linear dimensions of V are not so small as the microscopic scale.

Strictly, the forces in this sum should be evaluated using the microscopic fields. However, we can gain insight concerning the form taken by the force density by using the macroscopic fields in this evaluation. This is the basis for the following discussions of the force densities associated with unpaired charges and with conduction currents (the Lorentz force density) and with the polarization and magnetization of media (the Kelvin Force Density). To be certain that the usage of macroscopic fields in describing the force densities is consistent with that implicit in the constitutive laws already introduced to describe conduction, polarization and magnetization, the electromagnetic force densities should be derived using energy arguments. These derivations are extensions of those of Secs. 11.6 and 11.7 for forces. We end this section with a discussion of the results of such derivations and of circumstances under which they will predict the same total forces or even material deformations as those derived here.

The Lorentz Force Density

Without restricting the generality of the resulting force density, suppose that the electrical force on a material is due to two species of charged particles. One has N+ particles per unit volume, each with a charge q+, while the other has density N- and a charge equal to -q-. With v denoting the velocity of the macroscopic material and v representing the respective velocities of the carriers relative to that material, the Lorentz force law gives the force on the individual particles.

equation GIF #11.286
equation GIF #11.287
Note that q- is a positive number.

In typical solids and fluids, the charged particles are either bonded to the material or migrate relative to the material, suffering many collisions with the neutral material during times of interest. In either case, the inertia of the particles is inconsequential so that on the average the forces on the individual particles is passed along to the macroscopic material. In either case, the force density on the material is the sum of (2) and (3) respectively multiplied by the charged particle densities.

equation GIF #11.288
Substitution of (2) and (3) into this expression gives the Lorentz force density.

equation GIF #11.289
where u is the unpaired charge density (7.1.6) and J is the current density.

equation GIF #11.290
Because the material is in motion, with velocity v, the current density J has not only the contribution familiar from Sec. 7.1 (7.1.4) due to the migration of the carriers relative to the material, but one due to the net charge carried by the moving material as well.

In EQS systems, the first term in (5) usually outweighs the second, while in MQS systems (where the unpaired charge density is negligible) the second term dominates.

The derivation and Fig. 11.9.1 suggest why the electric term is proportional to the net charge density. In a given region, the force density resulting from the positively charged particles tends to be canceled by that due to the negatively charged particles and the net force density is therefore proportional to the difference in absolute magnitudes of the charge densities. We exploited this fact in Chap. 7 to let electrically induced material motions evidence the distribution of the unpaired charge density. For example, in Demonstration 7.5.1, the unpaired charge density was restricted to an interface and as a result the motion of the fluid was suppressed by constraining the interface. A more recent example is the force on the upper electrode in the capacitor transducer of Example 11.6.1. Here again, the force density is confined to a thin region on the surface of the conducting electrode.

floating figure GIF #55
The magnetic term in (6), pictured in Fig. 11.9.2 as acting on a current carrying wire, is also familiar. It was this force density that was responsible for throwing the metal disk into the air in the experiment described in Sec. 10.2. The force responsible for the levitation of the pan-cake coil in Demonstration 11.7.1 was also the net effect of the Lorentz force density, either acting over the volume of the coil conductors, or over that of the conducting sheet below. In MQS systems, where the contribution of the ``convection'' current uv is negligible, the current density is typically due to conduction. Note that this means that the velocity of the charge carriers is determined by the electric field they experience in the conductor, and not simply by the motion of the conductor. The current density J in a moving conductor is generally not in the direction of motion.

\footnote*Indeed, it is fortunate that the carriers do not have the same velocity as the material, for if they did it would not be possible to use the magnetic Lorentz force density for electromechanical energy conversion. If we recognize that the rate at which a force f does work on a particle that moves at the velocity v is v f then it follows from the Lorentz force, (1.1.1), that the rate of doing work on individual particles through the agent of the magnetic field is v (v x o H). The cross-product is perpendicular to v, so this rate of doing work must be zero. How the law of induction and Ohm's law can be used to determine the current density in a moving conductor is considered in Appendix A4.

The Kelvin Polarization Force Density

If microscopic particles carrying a net charge were the only contributors to a macroscopic force density, it would not be possible to explain the forces on polarized materials that are free of unpaired charge. Example 11.6.2 and Demonstration 11.6.2 highlighted the polarization force. The experiment was carried out in such a way that the dielectric material did not support unpaired charge, so the force is not explained by the Lorentz force density.

In these EQS cases where u = 0, the macroscopic force density is the result of forces on microscopic particles that have dipole moments. The resulting force density is fundamentally different from that due to unpaired charges, the forces p E on the individual microscopic particles are passed along by interparticle forces to the medium as a whole. A comparison of Fig. 11.9.3 to Fig. 11.9.1 emphasizes this point. For a single species of particles, the force density is the force on a single dipole multiplied by the number of dipoles per unit volume Np. By definition, the polarization density P = Np p, so it follows that the force density due to polarization is

equation GIF #11.291
This is often called the Kelvin polarization force density.

floating figure GIF #56

Example 11.11.1. Force on a Dielectric Material

In Fig. 11.9.4, the cross-section of a pair of electrodes that are dipped into a liquid dielectric is shown. The picture might be of a cross-section from the experiment of Demonstration 11.6.2. With the application of a potential difference to the electrodes, the dielectric rises between the electrodes. According to (7), what is the distribution of force density causing this rise?
floating figure GIF #57
For the liquid dielectric, the polarization constitutive law is taken as linear (6.4.2)
equation GIF #11.292
so that with the understanding that is a function of position (uniform in the liquid, o in the gas and taking a step at the interface) the force density of (7) becomes
equation GIF #11.293
By using a vector identity \footnote*
equation GIF #11.294

and invoking the EQS approximation where x E = 0, this expression is written as
equation GIF #11.295
A second vector identity \footnote**
equation GIF #11.296
converts this expression into one that will now prove useful in picturing the distribution of force density.

equation GIF #11.297
Provided that the interface is well removed from the fringing fields at the top and bottom edges of the electrodes, the electric field is uniform not only in the dielectric and gas above and below the interface between the electrodes, but through the interface as well. Thus, throughout the region between the electrodes there is no gradient of E, and hence, according to (7), no Kelvin force density. The Kelvin force density is therefore confined to the fringing field region where the fluid surrounds the lower edges of the electrodes. In this region, is uniform, so the force density reduces to the first term in (11). Expressed by this term, the direction and magnitude of the force density is determined by the gradient of the scalar E E. Thus, where E is varying in the fringing field, it is directed generally upward and into the region of greater field intensity as suggested by Fig. 11.9.4. The force on the dipole shown by the inset lends further credence to the dipolar origins of the force density.

Although there is no physical basis for doing so, it might seem reasonable to take the force density caused by polarization as being p E. After all, it is the polarization charge density p that was used in Chap. 6 to represent the effect of the media on the macroscopic electric field intensity E. The experiment of Demonstration 11.6.2, pictured in Fig. 11.9.4, is classic because it makes it clear that this force density is not correct. With the interface well removed from the fringing fields, there is no polarization charge density anywhere in the liquid, either at the interface or in the fringing field! If pE were the correct force density, it would be zero throughout the fluid volume.

The Kelvin Magnetization Force Density

Probably forces caused by magnetization are the most commonly experienced of electromagnetic forces. They account for the attraction between a magnet and a piece of iron. In Example 11.7.1, it is this force density that acts on the disk of magnetizable material.

Given that the magnetizable material is made up of microscopic dipoles, each experiencing a force of the nature of (11.8.6), and that the magnetization density M is the number of these per unit volume multiplied by m, it follows that the force density due to magnetization is

equation GIF #11.298
This is sometimes called the Kelvin magnetization force density.

Example 11.11.2. Force Density in a Magnetized Fluid

With the dielectric liquid replaced by a ferrofluid having a uniform permeability and the electrodes replaced by the pole faces of an electromagnet, the physical configuration shown in Fig. 11.9.4 becomes the one of Fig. 11.9.5, illustrating the magnetization force density. In such fluids

\footnote*Rosensweig, R.E., Magnetic Fluids, Scientific American, Oct. 1982, pp136-145., the magnetization results from an essentially permanent suspension of magnetized particles. Each particle comprises a magnetic dipole and passes its force on to the liquid medium in which it is suspended. Provided that the magnetization obeys a linear law, the discussion of the distribution of force density given in Example 11.9.1 applies equally well here.

floating figure GIF #58

Alternative Force Densities

We now return to comments used to introduce this section. The fields used to express the Lorentz and Kelvin force densities are macroscopic. To assure consistency between the averages implied by these force densities and those already inherent to the constitutive laws, an energy principle can be used. The approach is a continuum version of that exemplified for lumped-parameter systems in Secs. 11.7 and 11.8. In the lumped parameter systems, electrical terminal relations were used to determine a total energy and energy conservation was used to determine the force in turn. In the continuum system,

\footnote*Melcher, J.R., Continuum Electromechanics, M.I.T. Press, 1981, Chap. 3. the electrical constitutive law is used to find an energy density and energy conservation used in turn to find a force density. This energy method, like the one exemplified in Secs. 11.7 and 11.8 for lumped parameter systems, describes systems that are loss-free. In making practical use of the result it is assumed that it will be applicable even if there are losses. A more general method, which invokes a principle of virtual power, \footnote**Penfield, P. and Haus, H.A., Electrodynamics of Moving Media, M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1967 allows for dissipation but requires more empirical information than the polarization or magnetization constitutive law as a starting point.

Force densities derived from more rigorous arguments then given here can have very different distributions from the superposition of the Lorentz and Kelvin force densities. We expect that the arguments used here prove inadequate when the microscopic particles become so densely packed that the field experienced by one is significantly altered by its nearest neighbor. But surely the difference between the magnetic force density of Lorentz and Kelvin

equation GIF #11.299
we have derived here and the Korteweg-Helmholtz force density for incompressible media
equation GIF #11.300
is not due to interactions between microscopic particles. This latter force density is often obtained for an incompressible material energy arguments. (Note that, with - and H H respectively playing the roles of dL/d and i2, the magnetization term in (14) takes a form found for the force on a magnetizable material in Sec. 11.7.) In Example 11.9.2 (where J = 0), we found the force density of (13) to be confined to the fringing field. By contrast, (14) gives no force density in the fringing region (where is uniform) but rather puts it all at the interface. According to this latter equation, through the agent of a surface force density (a force density that is a spatial impulse at the interface) the field pulls upward on the interface.

Even though the force densities of (13) and (14) have very different distributions, they predict the same height of rise of the liquid! This is because the liquid deformations being considered are essentially incompressible, in the sense that, (with v denoting the liquid velocity) v = 0 \footnote*Solids can also deform in an essentially incompressible fashion. An example is the low frequency motion of jello or muscle.. In the force equation representing an incompressible material, there will always be another force density taking the form p, where the pressure p assumes whatever distribution it must to insure that the deformations are incompressible. As a result, contributions to the force density that take the form will have no effect on the incompressible deformations. The contribution of is simply balanced by that due to p.

For a magnetically linear material (o M = ( = \mo )H) the force densities of (13) and (14 do indeed only differ by a term taking the form . To see this, use a vector identity


A A = (\nabla x A) x A + fraction GIF #33 A A to write (13) as
equation GIF #11.301
The MQS form of Ampère's law makes it possible to substitute J for x H in this expression, which then becomes
equation GIF #11.302
The second term in this expression is then expanded using a second vector identity \footnote* x (\Psi A) = \Psi \nabla A + A \cdot
equation GIF #11.303
This expression differs from (14) by the last term, which indeed takes the form where
equation GIF #11.304
Thus, although they have very different distributions, the force densities of (13) and (14) will predict the same incompressible deformations of a material. Will the integration of these two force densities over the volume of an object result in two different total forces? Provided that the object is surrounded by media having the properties of free space, the answer is no. This is because the integral over the volume of the force density by which the two differ is zero. To see this, consider the x component (say) of that integral.

equation GIF #11.305
With the objective of converting this volume integral to one over the enclosing surface, we write this expression in the equivalent form
equation GIF #11.306
It follows from Gauss' Theorem that the volume integral on V is equivalent to one over the enclosing surface S.

equation GIF #11.307
With the surface S taken as enclosing an object surrounded by free space, = o on S and is zero everywhere on S. We conclude that integration of either (13) or (14) over the volume will give the same total force. In summary, if an object is surrounded by free space, integration over its volume of two force densities that differ by the gradient of a scalar that is zero in free space will result in the same net force.

Example 11.11.3. Magnetic Force on a Magnetizable Current Carrying Material

A block of conducting material having permeability is shown in Fig. 11.9.6 sandwiched between perfectly conducting plates. A current source, distributed over the left edges of these electrodes, drives a constant surface current density K in the +x direction along the left edge of the lower electrode. This current passes through the block in the y direction as a current density
floating figure GIF #59
equation GIF #11.308
and is returned to the source in the -x direction at the left edge of the upper electrode. The thickness a of the block is small compared to its other two dimensions, so the magnetic field between the electrodes is z directed and dependent only on x. From Ampère's law it follows that
equation GIF #11.309
in the conducting block.

The alternative force densities, (13) and (14), have very different distributions in the block. Yet, we must find that the net force on the block found by integrating each over its volume is the same. To see that this is so consider first the sum of the Lorentz and Kelvin force densities, (13).

There is no x component of the magnetic field intensity, so for this particular configuration, the magnetization term makes no contribution to (13). Evaluation of the first term using (22) and (23) then gives

equation GIF #11.310
Integration of this force density over the volume amounts to a multiplication by the cross-sectional area ab and integration on x.

equation GIF #11.311
Now, the force density given by (14) is evaluated. The permeability is uniform throughout the interior of the block, so the magnetization term is again zero there. However, is a step function at the ends of the block, where x = -b and x = 0. Thus, is an impulse there and we must take care to include the contributions from the surface regions in our integration. Evaluation of the x component of (14) using (22) and (23) gives
equation GIF #11.312
Note that Hz is K at x = -b and is zero at x = 0. Integration of (26) over the volume of the block therefore gives

equation GIF #11.313
Note that Hz is constant through the interface at x = -b. So, the integration of the last term can be carried out. Simplification of this expression gives the same total force as found before, (25).

The distributions of the force densities given by (13) and (14) are generally different, even very different. It is natural to therefore ask which of the two is the ``right'' one. In general, until the ``other'' force densities acting on the medium in question are specified, this question cannot be answered. Here, where a discussion of continuum mechanics is beyond our purvue, we have identified a class of mechanical continua (namely incompressible materials), where these force densities are equally valid. In fact so would any other force density differing from these by a term having the form . The combined Lorentz and Kelvin force densities have the advantage of a satisfying physical interpretation. However, the derivation has the weakness of making an ``ad hoc'' use of the macroscopic fields. Force densities resulting from an energy argument have the advantage of dealing rigorously with the macroscopic fields. The form illustrated by (14) also has the advantage of concentrating the magnetization force density at interfaces. For example, it is then clear that the height to which the liquid rises in the experiment of Fig. 11.9.4 depends on the field intensity at the interface and not on the details of the fringing field!

11.12 Macroscopic Force Densities

A macroscopic force density F(r ) is the force per unit volume acting on a medium in the neighborhood of r. Fundamentally, the electromagnetic force density is the result of forces acting on those microscopic particles embedded in the material that are charged, or that have electric or magnetic dipole moments. The forces acting on these individual particles are passed along through interparticle forces to the macroscopic material as a whole. In the limit where that volume becomes small, the force density can then be regarded as the sum of the microscopic forces over a volume element V.

equation GIF #11.314
Of course, the linear dimensions of V are large compared to the microscopic scale.

Strictly, the forces in this sum should be evaluated using the microscopic fields. However, we can gain insight concerning the form taken by the force density by using the macroscopic fields in this evaluation. This is the basis for the following discussions of the force densities associated with unpaired charges and with conduction currents (the Lorentz force density) and with the polarization and magnetization of media (the Kelvin Force Density). To be certain that the usage of macroscopic fields in describing the force densities is consistent with that implicit in the constitutive laws already introduced to describe conduction, polarization and magnetization, the electromagnetic force densities should be derived using energy arguments. These derivations are extensions of those of Secs. 11.6 and 11.7 for forces. We end this section with a discussion of the results of such derivations and of circumstances under which they will predict the same total forces or even material deformations as those derived here.

The Lorentz Force Density

Without restricting the generality of the resulting force density, suppose that the electrical force on a material is due to two species of charged particles. One has N+ particles per unit volume, each with a charge q+, while the other has density N- and a charge equal to -q-. With v denoting the velocity of the macroscopic material and v representing the respective velocities of the carriers relative to that material, the Lorentz force law gives the force on the individual particles.

equation GIF #11.315
equation GIF #11.316
Note that q- is a positive number.

In typical solids and fluids, the charged particles are either bonded to the material or migrate relative to the material, suffering many collisions with the neutral material during times of interest. In either case, the inertia of the particles is inconsequential so that on the average the forces on the individual particles is passed along to the macroscopic material. In either case, the force density on the material is the sum of (2) and (3) respectively multiplied by the charged particle densities.

equation GIF #11.317
Substitution of (2) and (3) into this expression gives the Lorentz force density.

boxed equation GIF #11.41
where u is the unpaired charge density (7.1.6) and J is the current density.

equation GIF #11.318
Because the material is in motion, with velocity v, the current density J has not only the contribution familiar from Sec. 7.1 (7.1.4) due to the migration of the carriers relative to the material, but one due to the net charge carried by the moving material as well.

In EQS systems, the first term in (5) usually outweighs the second, while in MQS systems (where the unpaired charge density is negligible) the second term tends to dominate.

The derivation and Fig. 11.9.1 suggest why the electric term is proportional to the net charge density. In a given region, the force density resulting from the positively charged particles tends to be canceled by that due to the negatively charged particles and the net force density is therefore proportional to the difference in absolute magnitudes of the charge densities. We exploited this fact in Chap. 7 to let electrically induced material motions evidence the distribution of the unpaired charge density. For example, in Demonstration 7.5.1, the unpaired charge density was restricted to an interface and as a result the motion of the fluid was suppressed by constraining the interface. A more recent example is the force on the upper electrode in the capacitor transducer of Example 11.6.1. Here again, the force density is confined to a thin region on the surface of the conducting electrode.

floating figure GIF #60
The magnetic term in (6), pictured in Fig. 11.9.2 as acting on a current carrying wire, is also familiar. It was this force density that was responsible for throwing the metal disk into the air in the experiment described in Sec. 10.2. The force responsible for the levitation of the pan-cake coil in Demonstration 11.7.1 was also the net effect of the Lorentz force density, either acting over the volume of the coil conductors, or over that of the conducting sheet below. In MQS systems, where the contribution of the ``convection'' current uv is negligible, the current density is typically due to conduction. Note that this means that the velocity of the charge carriers is determined by the electric field they experience in the conductor, and not simply by the motion of the conductor. The current density J in a moving conductor is generally not in the direction of motion.


9 Indeed, it is fortunate that the carriers do not have the same velocity as the material, for if they did it would not be possible to use the magnetic Lorentz force density for electromechanical energy conversion. If we recognize that the rate at which a force f does work on a particle that moves at the velocity v is v f then it follows from the Lorentz force, (1.1.1), that the rate of doing work on individual particles through the agent of the magnetic field is v (v x o H). The cross-product is perpendicular to v, so this rate of doing work must be zero.

The Kelvin Polarization Force Density

If microscopic particles carrying a net charge were the only contributors to a macroscopic force density, it would not be possible to explain the forces on polarized materials that are free of unpaired charge. Example 11.6.2 and Demonstration 11.6.2 highlighted the polarization force. The experiment was carried out in such a way that the dielectric material did not support unpaired charge, so the force is not explained by the Lorentz force density.

In these EQS cases where u = 0, the macroscopic force density is the result of forces on microscopic particles that have dipole moments. The resulting force density is fundamentally different from that due to unpaired charges, the forces p E on the individual microscopic particles are passed along by interparticle forces to the medium as a whole. A comparison of Fig. 11.9.3 to Fig. 11.9.1 emphasizes this point. For a single species of particles, the force density is the force on a single dipole multiplied by the number of dipoles per unit volume Np. By definition, the polarization density P = Np p, so it follows that the force density due to polarization is

boxed equation GIF #11.42
This is often called the Kelvin polarization force density.

floating figure GIF #61

Example 11.12.1. Force on a Dielectric Material

In Fig. 11.9.4, the cross-section of a pair of electrodes that are dipped into a liquid dielectric is shown. The picture might be of a cross-section from the experiment of Demonstration 11.6.2. With the application of a potential difference to the electrodes, the dielectric rises between the electrodes. According to (7), what is the distribution of force density causing this rise?
floating figure GIF #62
For the liquid dielectric, the polarization constitutive law is taken as linear (6.4.2) and (6.4.4)
equation GIF #11.319
so that with the understanding that is a function of position (uniform in the liquid, o in the gas and taking a step at the interface) the force density of (7) becomes
equation GIF #11.320
By using a vector identity

A A
= ( x A) x A + fraction GIF #34 \nabla (A A)
and invoking the EQS approximation where x E = 0, this expression is written as
equation GIF #11.321
A second vector identity

A ) = A \Psi + \Psi \nabla \cdot A converts this expression into one that will now prove useful in picturing the distribution of force density.

equation GIF #11.322
Provided that the interface is well removed from the fringing fields at the top and bottom edges of the electrodes, the electric field is uniform not only in the dielectric and gas above and below the interface between the electrodes, but through the interface as well. Thus, throughout the region between the electrodes there is no gradient of E, and hence, according to (7), no Kelvin force density. The Kelvin force density is therefore confined to the fringing field region where the fluid surrounds the lower edges of the electrodes. In this region, is uniform, so the force density reduces to the first term in (11). Expressed by this term, the direction and magnitude of the force density is determined by the gradient of the scalar E E. Thus, where E is varying in the fringing field, it is directed generally upward and into the region of greater field intensity as suggested by Fig. 11.9.4. The force on the dipole shown by the inset lends further credence to the dipolar origins of the force density.

Although there is no physical basis for doing so, it might seem reasonable to take the force density caused by polarization as being p E. After all, it is the polarization charge density p that was used in Chap. 6 to represent the effect of the media on the macroscopic electric field intensity E. The experiment of Demonstration 11.6.2, pictured in Fig. 11.9.7, is classic because it makes it clear that this force density is not correct. With the interface well removed from the fringing fields, there is no polarization charge density anywhere in the liquid, either at the interfaces or in the fringing field! If pE were the correct force density, it would be zero throughout the fluid volume except at the interfaces with the conducting electrodes. Such a force distribution could not cause the fluid to rise.

The Kelvin Magnetization Force Density

Probably forces caused by magnetization are the most commonly experienced of electromagnetic forces. They account for the attraction between a magnet and a piece of iron. In Example 11.7.1, it is this force density that acts on the disk of magnetizable material.

Given that the magnetizable material is made up of microscopic dipoles, each experiencing a force of the nature of (11.8.28), and that the magnetization density M is the number of these per unit volume multiplied by m, it follows that the force density due to magnetization is

equation GIF #11.323
This is sometimes called the Kelvin magnetization force density.

Example 11.12.2. Force Density in a Magnetized Fluid

With the dielectric liquid replaced by a ferrofluid having a uniform permeability and the electrodes replaced by the pole faces of an electromagnet, the physical configuration shown in Fig. 11.9.4 becomes the one of Fig. 11.9.5, illustrating the magnetization force density. In such fluids[1], the magnetization results from an essentially permanent suspension of magnetized particles. Each particle comprises a magnetic dipole and passes its force on to the liquid medium in which it is suspended. Provided that the magnetization obeys a linear law, the discussion of the distribution of force density given in Example 11.9.1 applies equally well here.

floating figure GIF #63

Alternative Force Densities

We now return to comments used to introduce this section. The fields used to express the Lorentz and Kelvin force densities are macroscopic. To assure consistency between the averages implied by these force densities and those already inherent to the constitutive laws, an energy principle can be used. The approach is a continuum version of that exemplified for lumped-parameter systems in Secs. 11.7 and 11.8. In the lumped parameter systems, electrical terminal relations were used to determine a total energy and energy conservation was used to determine the force in turn. In the continuum system[2], the constitutive laws are used to find an energy density and energy conservation used in turn to find a force density. This energy method, like the one exemplified in Secs. 11.7 and 11.8 for lumped parameter systems, describes systems that are loss-free. In making practical use of the result it is assumed that it will be applicable even if there are losses. A more general method, which invokes a principle of virtual power[3], allows for dissipation but requires more empirical information than the polarization or magnetization constitutive law as a starting point.

Force densities derived from more rigorous arguments then given here can have very different distributions from the superposition of the Lorentz and Kelvin force densities. We expect that the arguments used here prove inadequate when the microscopic particles become so densely packed that the field experienced by one is significantly altered by its nearest neighbor. But surely the difference between the magnetic force density of Lorentz and Kelvin

equation GIF #11.324
we have derived here and the Korteweg-Helmholtz force density for incompressible media
equation GIF #11.325
is not due to interactions between microscopic particles. This latter force density is often obtained for an incompressible material by energy arguments. (Note that, with - and H H respectively playing the roles of dL/d and i2, the magnetization term in (14) takes a form found for the force on a magnetizable material in Sec. 11.7.) In Example 11.9.2 (where J = 0), we found the force density of (13) to be confined to the fringing field. By contrast, (14) gives no force density in the fringing region (where is uniform) but rather puts it all at the interface. According to this latter equation, through the agent of a surface force density (a force density that is a spatial impulse at the interface) the field pulls upward on the interface.

Even though the force densities of (13) and (14) have very different distributions, they predict the same height of rise of the liquid! This is because the liquid deformations being considered are essentially volume conserving (incompressible), in the sense that, (with denoting the liquid displacement) = 0


12 Solids can also deform in an essentially incompressible fashion. An example is the low frequency motion of jello or muscle.. In the force equation representing an incompressible material, there will always be another force density taking the form p, where the pressure p assumes whatever distribution it must to insure that the deformations are incompressible. As a result, contributions to the force density that take the form will have no effect on the incompressible deformations. The contribution of is simply balanced by that due to p.

For a magnetically linear material (o M = ( - \mo )H) the force densities of (13) and (14 do indeed only differ by a term taking the form . To see this, use a vector identity


13 A
A = (\nabla x A) x A + fraction GIF #35 A
A to write (13) as
equation GIF #11.326
The MQS form of Ampère's law makes it possible to substitute
J for x H in this expression, which then becomes
equation GIF #11.327
The second term in this expression is then expanded using a second vector identity

14 x (\Psi A
) = \Psi \nabla A + A \cdot \Psi
equation GIF #11.328
This expression differs from (14) by the last term, which indeed takes the form
where
equation GIF #11.329
Thus, although they have very different distributions, the force densities of (13) and (14) will predict the same incompressible deformations of a material. Will the integration of these two force densities over the volume of an object result in the same total force? Provided that the object is surrounded by media having the properties of free space, the answer is yes. This is because the integral over the volume of the force density by which the two differ is zero. To see this, consider the
x component (say) of that integral.

equation GIF #11.330
With the objective of converting this volume integral to one over the enclosing surface, we write this expression in the equivalent form
equation GIF #11.331
It follows from Gauss' Theorem that the volume integral on
V is equivalent to one over the enclosing surface S.

equation GIF #11.332
With the surface
S taken as enclosing an object surrounded by free space, = o on S and is zero everywhere on S. We conclude that integration of either (13) or (14) over the volume will give the same total force. In summary, if an object is surrounded by free space, integration over its volume of two force densities that differ by the gradient of a scalar that is zero in free space will result in the same net force.

Example 11.12.3. Magnetic Force on a Magnetizable Current Carrying Material

A block of conducting material having permeability is shown in Fig. 11.9.6 sandwiched between perfectly conducting plates. A current source, distributed over the left edges of these electrodes, drives a constant surface current density K in the +x direction along the left edge of the lower electrode. This current passes through the block in the y direction as a current density
floating figure GIF #64
equation GIF #11.333
and is returned to the source in the
-x direction at the left edge of the upper electrode. The thickness a of the block is small compared to its other two dimensions, so the magnetic field between the electrodes is z directed and dependent only on x. From Ampère's law it follows that
equation GIF #11.334
in the conducting block.

The alternative force densities, (13) and (14), have very different distributions in the block. Yet, we must find that the net force on the block found by integrating each over its volume is the same. To see that this is so consider first the sum of the Lorentz and Kelvin force densities, (13).

There is no x component of the magnetic field intensity, so for this particular configuration, the magnetization term makes no contribution to (13). Evaluation of the first term using (22) and (23) then gives

equation GIF #11.335
Integration of this force density over the volume amounts to a multiplication by the cross-sectional area ab and integration on x.

equation GIF #11.336
Now, the force density given by (14) is evaluated. The permeability
is uniform throughout the interior of the block, so the magnetization term is again zero there. However, is a step function at the ends of the block, where x = -b and x = 0. Thus, is an impulse there and we must take care to include the contributions from the surface regions in our integration. Evaluation of the x component of (14) using (22) and (23) gives
equation GIF #11.337
Note that
Hz is K at x = -b and is zero at x = 0. Integration of (26) over the volume of the block therefore gives

equation GIF #11.338
Note that
Hz is constant through the interface at x = -b. So, the integration of the last term can be carried out. Simplification of this expression gives the same total force as found before, (25).

The distributions of the force densities given by (13) and (14) are generally different, even very different. It is natural to therefore ask which of the two is the ``right'' one. In general, until the ``other'' force densities acting on the medium in question are specified, this question cannot be answered. Here, where a discussion of continuum mechanics is beyond our purvue, we have identified a class of mechanical deformations (namely those that are volume conserving or ``incompressible''), where these force densities are equally valid. In fact so would any other force density differing from these by a term having the form . The combined Lorentz and Kelvin force densities have the advantage of a satisfying physical interpretation. However, the derivation has the weakness of making an ``ad hoc'' use of the macroscopic fields. Force densities resulting from an energy argument have the advantage of dealing rigorously with the macroscopic fields. The form illustrated by (14) also has the advantage of concentrating the magnetization force density at interfaces. For example, it is then clear that the height to which the liquid rises in the experiment of Fig. 11.9.4 depends on the field intensity at the interface and not on the details of the fringing field!

R E F E R E N C E S

  1. R. E. Rosensweig, ``Magnetic fluids,'' Scientific American, 136-145, Oct. 1982.

  2. J. R. Melcher, Continuum Electromechanics, MIT Press, 1981, Chap. 3.
  3. P. Penfield and H. A. Haus, Electrodynamics of Moving Media, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1967.

11.13 Summary

The basis for a self-consistent macroscopic description of any continuum subsystem is a power-flow statement having the forms identified in Sec. 11.1. Describing a volume V enclosed by a surface S, the integral conservation of energy statements takes the form (11.1.1)
equation GIF #11.339
Implied by this is the differential form of the conservation of energy statement.
equation GIF #11.340
Poynting's Theorem, the subject of Sec. 11.2, is obtained starting from the laws of Faraday and Ampère to obtain an expression of the form of (2). For materials that are Ohmic
(J = E) and that are linearly polarizable and magnetizable (D = E and B = H) the power flux density S (or Poynting's vector), energy density W and power dissipation density Pd were shown in Sec. 11.3 to be
equation GIF #11.341
equation GIF #11.342
equation GIF #11.343
Of course, taking the free space limit where
and assume their free-space values and = 0 gives the free-space conservation statement discussed in Sec. 11.2.

In Sec. 11.3, we found that in EQS systems an alternative to Poynting's vector is (11.3.24)

equation GIF #11.344
This expression is of practical importance because it can be evaluated without determining
H, which is generally not of interest in EQS systems. Perhaps a more important reason for introducing the alternative EQS forms of S is that it emphasizes that S is not unique. In Sec. 11.3 we saw that Poynting's flux density and (6) assumed entirely different spatial distributions. Yet, evaluation of the integral of S da over a closed surface (the left hand side of (1)) and of the divergence of S at any point must give the same result using either expression. The integral over a closed surface of S da or the divergence of S is the physically significant quantity and not the value of S at a given point.

An important application of the integral form of the energy conservation statement is to lumped parameter systems. In these cases, the surface S of (1) encloses a system that is connected to the outside world through terminals. It is then convenient to describe the power flow in terms of the terminal variables. It was shown in Sec. 11.3 (11.3.29) that the net power into the system represented by the left hand side of (1) becomes

equation GIF #11.345
provided that the magnetic induction is negligible on the surface S, and the electric displacement current is parallel to the surface S. This set the stage for the application of the integral form of the energy conservation theorem to lumped parameter systems.

In Sec. 11.4, attention focused on the energy storage term, the first terms on the right in (1) and (2). The energy density concept was broadened to include materials having constitutive laws relating the flux densities to the field intensities that were single valued and collinear. With E, D, H and B representing the field magnitudes, the energy density was found to be the sum of electric and magnetic energy densities.

equation GIF #11.346
Integrated over the volume V of a system, this function leads to the total energy w. For quasistatic lumped parameter systems, the total electric or magnetic energy is often conveniently found following a different route. First, the terminal relations are determined and then the total energy is found by adding up the increments of energy put into the system as it is energized. In the case of an n terminal pair EQS system, where the relation between terminal voltage vi and associated charge qi is vi (q1, q2, \ldots qn ), the increment of energy is vi dqi and the total electric energy is (11.4.9)
equation GIF #11.347
The line integration in an
n-dimensional space representing the n independent qi's was illustrated by Example 11.4.2. Similarly, for an n terminal pair MQS system where the current ii is related to the flux linkage i by ii = ii (1, 2, \ldots n), the total energy is (11.4.12)
equation GIF #11.348
Note the analogy between these expressions for the total energy of EQS and MQS lumped parameter systems and the respective electric and magnetic energy densities of (8). The transition from the field picture afforded by the energy densities to the lumped parameter characterization is made by
E v, D \rightarrow q and by H i, B \rightarrow .

Especially in using the energy to evaluate forces of electrical origin, we found it convenient to define coenergy density functions.

equation GIF #11.349
It followed that these functions were natural when it was desirable to use
E and H as the independent variables rather than D and B.

equation GIF #11.350
The total coenergy functions for lumped parameter EQS and MQS systems could be found either by integrating these densities over the volume or by again viewing the system in terms of its terminal variables. With the total coenergy functions defined by
equation GIF #11.351
it followed that the coenergy functions could be determined from the terminal relations by again carrying out line integrations, but this time with the voltages and currents as the independent variables. For EQS systems,

equation GIF #11.352
while for MQS systems
equation GIF #11.353
Again, note the analogy to the respective terms in (12).

The remaining sections of the chapter developed some of the possible implications of the ``dissipation'' term in the energy conservation statement, the last terms in (1) and (2). In Sec. 11.5, coupling to a thermal subsystem was the point. In this section, the disparity between the power input and the rate of increase of the energy stored was accounted for by heating. In addition to Ohmic heating, caused by collisions between the migrating carriers and the neutral media, we considered losses associated with the dynamic polarization and magnetization of materials.

In Secs. 11.6-11.9 we considered coupling to a mechanical subsystem as a second mechanism by which energy gain or energy loss from the electromagnetic system could occur. With the displacement of an object denoted by , we used an energy conservation postulate to infer the total electric or magnetic force acting on the object from the energy functions ((11.6.9), and its magnetic analog)

equation GIF #11.354
or from the coenergy functions ((11.7.7) and the analogous expression for electric systems).

equation GIF #11.355
In Sec. 11.8, where the Lorentz force on a particle was generalized to account for electric and magnetic dipole moments, one objective was a microscopic picture that would lend physical insight to the forces on polarized and magnetized materials. The Lorentz force was generalized to indicate the force on stationary electric and magnetic dipoles, respectively
equation GIF #11.356
The total macroscopic forces resulting from microscopic forces had already been encountered in the previous two sections. The force density describes the interaction between a volume element of the electromagnetic subsystem and a mechanical continuum. A rigorous approach to finding the force density is based on a generalization of the energy method introduced in Secs. 11.6 and 11.7.

Such an approach has to include information on the effect of thermodynamic variables (such as density and entropy) on the constitutive laws[1,2].

R E F E R E N C E S

  1. P. Penfield, Jr., and H. A. Haus, Electrodynamics of Moving Media, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1967.

  2. J. R. Melcher, Continuum Electromechanics, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1981, Chap. 3.