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Physics 1425: General Physics I - Galileo and Einstein

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Switching on the Current Sheet<br />

• If the current sheet is<br />

suddenly switched on, in<br />

the first moments the<br />

magnetic field is only<br />

established close to the<br />

sheet.<br />

• We’ll assume it moves<br />

out like a tidal wave away<br />

from the sheet, at speed<br />

v, so at time t it extends<br />

out to vt, with nothing<br />

beyond.<br />

• .<br />

(No B-field out here yet.)<br />

vt<br />

vt<br />

(No B-field out here yet.)<br />

B-field<br />

Infinite uniform<br />

current sheet:<br />

flows into screen

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