Potential and Lines of Force for Two Parallel Infinite Line Charges
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The electrostatic potential in an \[Hyphen] plane for an infinite line charge in the direction with linear density is given by
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Contributed by: S. M. Blinder (August 2020)
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The orthogonal networks of equipotentials and lines of force must satisfy the equation
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or, more explicitly,
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This is analogous to the mappings of the real and imaginary parts of a complex function. For the problem of parallel line charges, consider the complex function
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where . Working out the real and imaginary parts of , we obtain the functions and given in the caption.
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