Force on a dielectric slab: Fringing field approach

American Journal of Physics

Volumn 72, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1499-1500

  Dietz, Eric R ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 10844295801     PISSN: 00029505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1119/1.1764563     Document Type: Article

References (2)

1. Paul Gluck, "Force on the dielectric in a parallel plate capacitor," Phys. Teach. 41, 521-523 (2003).
2. See, for example, David J Griffiths, Introduction to Electrodynamics, 3rd ed. (Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, N.J., 1999), Chap. 4. The calculation of the force on the slab by the energy method starts on p. 194. The force on a dipole is given on p. 165.