
312 Basics of Magnetostatics
The four constants are determined in the familiar way by two
boundary conditions at and two at . They result in these equations:
.
(5.110)
Cramer’s rule may be used to solve for . We skip the laborious, but trivial
algebra. The final result is
.
(5.111)
The previously calculated case of the sphere is a special case of this. Letting
gives again eq. (5.106). Another interesting case is for
(vacuum), . Now the field is
.
For a uniform ferromagnetic hollow sphere we have and therefore
.
If also , then
.
This is an important and handy result. Since may take on values of the order of
, i.e., is by 3 to 4 orders of magnitude smaller than the outside field. This
means that highly permeable materials allow for the shielding of external fields
(Fig. 5.54). Of course, the B field is:
CDH
m
H
i
,, ,
rr
1
= rr
2
=
H
a ∞,
–
C
r
2
3
-----+ H
m
–
D
r
2
3
-----+=
H
m
–
D
r
1
3
-----+ H
i
–=
µ
a
H
a ∞,
2µ
a
C
r
2
3
-----
+ µ
m
H
m
2µ
m
D
r
2
3
-----
+=
µ
m
H
m
2µ
m
D
r
1
3
-----
+ µ
i
H
i
=
H
i
H
i
H
a ∞,
1
2
3
---
µ
i
3µ
a
---------
2 µ
m
µ
i
–()µ
m
µ
a
–()
9µ
m
µ
a
--------------------------------------------------
1
r
1
r
2
----
3
–++
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
=
r
1
r
2
= µ
i
µ
a
µ
0
==
µ
m
µ
0
≠
H
i
H
a ∞,
1
1
2
µ
m
µ
0
-------1–
2
9
µ
m
µ
0
-------
---------------------------
1
r
1
r
2
----
3
–+
---------------------------------------------------------------------
=
µ
m
µ
0
»
H
i
9H
a ∞,
2
µ
m
µ
0
-------
1
r
1
r
2
----
3
–
------------------------------------------=
r
1
r
2
⁄()
3
1«
H
i
9H
a ∞,
2
µ
m
µ
0
-------
----------------
≈
µ
m
10
4
µ
0
H
i