The electric polarization is electric dipole moment per unit volume. A polarized body acts as the bound volume and surface charge density
Indeed, summing the scalar potential of its dipoles and integrating by parts gives
This is exactly the potential of and .
For the central free charge, Gauss's law for the electric displacement field gives
Thus on the sphere,
The magnetization is magnetic dipole moment per unit volume. It produces bound volume and surface current density
Starting from the vector potential of magnetic dipoles and integrating by parts gives
which has precisely the form generated by those bound currents.
Write the cylinder radius as and use cylindrical radius . Ampère's law for the free axial current gives, inside the material,
At this is tangential to the cylinder. Since ,
and
For , the bound surface current therefore runs opposite to the free wire current.

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