Page:ThomsonMagnetic1889.djvu/8

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page has been validated.
8
Mr. J. J. Thompson on the Magnetic Effects

for to make

Inside the sphere the differential equations for and are of the form

if , the solution of this equation is

where

Similarly

the differential equation for is

So that

where

and is introduced to make

Since are continuous when , if is the radius of the sphere we have

(5)

Since, on the assumption discussed above, the electrification on the surface of the moving sphere is equivalent to a tangential current-sheet whose intensity is , we have as another surface-condition that the difference between the