Magnetic field of a rotating charged spherical body

ID: magnetic-field-of-a-rotating-charged-spherical-body

A uniformly charged solid sphere of total charge , radius and angular velocity has magnetic dipole moment
For a uniformly charged thin spherical shell the coefficient is instead of . At large distances the magnetic field is a magnetic dipole field, . Its angularly averaged magnitude and root mean square magnitude both scale as ; its angularly averaged vector is zero. Steady rotation of this axisymmetric charge distribution produces magnetostatics, not radiation.

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