Electricity and Magnetism · Problem 10.25

MAGNETIC FIELDS IN MATTER — Edward Purcell & David Morin

Physics — E&M · average-dipole-field-sphere

Problem

By direct integration, show that the average of the dipole field, over the surface of a sphere centered at the dipole, is zero. You will want to work with the Cartesian components of E\mathbf{E}, but feel free to write these components in terms of spherical coordinates, as in Eq. (10.17).

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