Insert and into the Lorentz force and use vector identities plus Faraday's law. Rearrangement gives . Here is field momentum density and is the Maxwell stress tensor, whose surface traction transports momentum.
With no free surface charge, tangential and normal are continuous. The image ansatz givesAt , with ,
Integrating the normal Maxwell traction (the radial parts cancel) givesIt points toward the dielectric when . This equals the Coulomb force from the image charge, as it must.
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