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produced by Motion in the Electric Field.
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magnetic force outside and inside ; hence

From (5) we have

From these equations we have

(6)
(7)

where

Let us first consider the case where and are both small. In this case is large compared with and , very small compared with ; hence we see that

Since approximately, and , we have

The magnetic force outside the sphere parallel to the axis of equals

or