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Problem Set 1 Foundations: PHYC30016 Electrodynamics

This document contains a 10 question problem set on electromagnetism concepts. The problems cover vector calculus identities and operations including gradient, divergence, curl, Laplacian, and theorems like Gauss', Stokes', and Green's. Several problems are marked as more challenging with an asterisk. The final problem evaluates a vector integral over a sphere in two different ways.

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Problem Set 1 Foundations: PHYC30016 Electrodynamics

This document contains a 10 question problem set on electromagnetism concepts. The problems cover vector calculus identities and operations including gradient, divergence, curl, Laplacian, and theorems like Gauss', Stokes', and Green's. Several problems are marked as more challenging with an asterisk. The final problem evaluates a vector integral over a sphere in two different ways.

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PHYC30016 Electrodynamics

Problem Set 1 Foundations

You may find that problems marked with an asterisk (*) are more challenging.
1. Show that
(a)   fg   f g  gf
(b)    fA  f    A  A   f 

2. (Adapted from Griffith 1.12) The height of a certain hill (in metres) is given by:

h  x, y   3 2 xy  3x 2  4 y 2  18 x  28 y  12 
where y is the distance (in kilometres) north, x is the distance east of South Hadley.
(a) Where is the top of the hill located?
(b) How high is the hill?
(c) How steep is the slope (in metres per kilometres) at a point 1 kilometre north and 1
kilometre east of South Hadley? In what direction is the slope steepest at that point?

3. (Adapted from Griffith 1.15 and 1.18) Calculate the divergence and curl of the following vector
functions:
(a) va  x 2 xˆ  3 xz 2 yˆ  2 xzzˆ
(b) vb  xyxˆ  2 yzyˆ  3 zxzˆ
(c)  
vc  y 2 xˆ  2 xy  z 2 yˆ  2 yzzˆ

4. (Griffiths 1.26) Calculate the Laplacian of the following functions:


(a) Ta  x 2  2 xy  3 z  4
(b) Tb  sin x sin y sin z
(c) Tc  e 5 x sin 4 y cos 3 z
(d) v  x 2 xˆ  3 xz 2 yˆ  2 xzzˆ

5. Show that
(a) 
1

 x  x '
x  x' x  x'
3

 4  x  x '
1
(b) 2
x  x'

6. Prove that if x  rrˆ , where r̂ is a radial unit vector then


2
(a)   rˆ 
r
(b)   rˆ  0
(c)  A   rˆ  1 A  rˆ A  rˆ 
r

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7. * In lectures the Levi-Civita tensor, ijk was defined. Show that:
(a)  kij klm   il jm   im jl
(b)  ijk  jk  2 i
(c)  ijk  ijk  6

8. * Using the relationships shown in Q1 and the fact that we can write the vector cross-product in
the form:  A  B i   ijk A j Bk , show that
(a) A  B  C    A  C B   A  B C
(b)    A  B   B    A  A    Β 
(c)   u   0
(d)     A  0
(e)     A    A   2 A

9. * Using the gradient, Stokes’ and Gauss’ theorems show that:

(a)
V
 
 T U  T   U  dV   TU   dA
2
S
Green’s identity

(b)
V
 2
S

 T U  U T dV   TU  UT   dA
2
Green’s theorem

(c)  T  dA    Tdl
S P

10. * (Griffiths 1.49) Evaluate the integral:


 r̂ 
J   e  r    dV
V  r2 
(where V is a sphere of radius R centred at the origin) by two different methods.

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