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Scribe report prepared by Carlos M. Rinaldi for 18.325 Fluid Mechanics, Spring 2000.
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...dielectric
See H.R. Melcher, Continuum Electromechanics.
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...have
A useful vector identity in going from the second to the third equality is: 8#8 Also remember that the electric field is irrotational.
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...then
Note that the force density given in class is the Kelvin force density (for system of dilute dipoles): 13#13 (my notes have a sign mistake in the second term, I don't know if I am the only one). The corresponding MST for this force density is 14#14. See Melcher, ibid.
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...force
Note that my equations will differ from Taylor's in notation and by a factor of 36#36 because of the form of the electric field equations I am using.
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brenner@math.mit.edu