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Mathematical Notes by Professor Tait (2.) On the Equipotential Surfaces for a Straight Wire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

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Extract

Some results given in Vol. I. of Thomson and Tait's Natural Philosophy may be much more simply obtained by calculating the potential of a wire rather than its attraction. That potential is easily found as

where c is the length of the wire, ρ its line density, r1 and r2 the distances of its ends from the point at which the potential is to be found.

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Proceedings 1874-75
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 8 , 1875 , pp. 443
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1875

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