Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-physics-2-paper-of-the-university-of-oxford/2014/10/2/solution

For a charging parallel-plate capacitor of area , neglect fringing. The field in the gap is , so the displacement current through the gap is
An Amperian loop around the feed wire can bound a surface cutting the wire, which has conduction current , or a bulging surface passing through the dielectric gap, which has no conduction current. Including displacement current makes both surfaces give the same magnetic circulation. It is also required by charge conservation: the divergence of the Ampère-Maxwell equation and Gauss's law yields , the continuity equation.

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