A parallel plate capacitor made of circular plates is being charged such that the surface charge density on its plates is increasing at a constant rate with time. The magnetic field arising due to displacement current is:
- Azero at all places
- Bconstant between the plates and zero outside the plates
- Cnon-zero everywhere with maximum at the imaginary cylindrical surface connecting peripheries of the plates
- Dzero between the plates and non-zero outside
Solution & Step-by-step Explanation
Charging the capacitor changes the electric field between the plates. . Since is constant, is constant.
Displacement current density .2. Magnetic Field ():
According to Ampere-Maxwell law, .
For a circular path of radius inside the plates (, where is plate radius):.
For (outside):.3. Observation:
The field increases linearly from zero at the center () to a maximum at the edge (), and then decreases outside. Thus, the field is non-zero everywhere (except at the exact axis) and peaks at the periphery.