Re: volume polarization vs. surface charge

[brian whatcott <inet@INTELLISYS.NET>]

At 23:59 3/5/99 -0500, you wrote:
> ... bound charge is not restricted to surfaces (only in the case of a
> uniformly polarized dielectric);  wherever there is a divergence of the
> polarization volume density, an equivalent bound monopole charge density can
> be used to calculate (the dipole approximation of) the field of the
> polarized matter.
...
> Bob Sciamanda

Bob's paragraph quoted here, evoked for me Faraday's observation
of charge recovery in dielectrics composed of two layers with differing
properties.

Brian

brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>
Altus OK