Electrostatic relations

The degree to which a material responds to an applied electric field can be most easily appreciated in the case of a parallel-plate capacitor. Suppose first that a fixed voltage V is connected across such a capacitor where the plates are separated by a distance d in a vacuum, as shown in Fig. 2.1(a). Neglecting edge effects, the electric field E thereby produced in the region between the plates will be uniform, having a magnitude 

We should note that, since an electric field has direction as well as magnitude, it is more fully represented as a vector quantity denoted by E, with components Ex, Ey, Ez. In the present case, where the field is necessarily perpendicular to the plates, it follows from Coulomb s law1 that the charges +Q and —Q per unit area stored on the plates are directly proportional to the magnitude of the field, i.e. 

The constant of proportionality e0 is called the permittivity of free space and has the value 8.85xl0 12 Fm 1. The vacuum capacitance per unit area of 

1 In SI units Coulomb s fundamental inverse-square law governing the force / between two point charges fi and qi separated by the vector distance r in a vacuum takes the form  

2 Unless the field is very high, the magnitude of the polarisation is directly proportional to the field. In the case of an anisotropic material its direction is not necessarily parallel to the field. 

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We consider two ions of radii Ra and 7 positioned at a distance 7 ab between them. We assume that 7 ab A> Ra,Rb so that simple electrostatic relations can be used. The relevant fluctuations of the nuclear polarization about state 0 are those that take place in the direction of state 1. The reaction coordinate 6 defines equilibrium states along this direction according to Eq. (16.21), that is,... 

In this method, originally developed in 1981 but then almost completely redefined in 1995, the apparent surface charge is expressed by the following classical electrostatic relation ... 

Now in so far as a physical reality may be attributed to the atmosphere of electrification, p may be inserted in the elassical electrostatic relation between density and potential, Poisson s equation. 

Poisson s equation of electrostatics relates pe to the variation of i/>with distance to the charged surface, x, in the form... 

The Poisson equation in electrostatics relates the charge concentration contained in a system to the Laplacian of the electric potential. 

The Gauss theorem in electrostatics relates, in its integral version, the charge contained in a system to the flux of the electric field across a surface surrounding the charges. 

Specific rigs enable the measmement of the electrical potential Vs on the surface of the particle. It is usually of the order of a few millivolts. The surface charge corresponding to the potential K can be estimated using the electrostatic relation ... 

Added to these interactions are the electrostatic forces related to the dielectric constants and which are important when it is necessary to separate ionic components. 

Some electric properties of molecules are described in section Al.5.2.2 because the coefficients of the powers of Mr turn out to be related to them. The electrostatic, mduction and dispersion energies are considered m turn in section Al.5.2.3, section Al.5.2.4 and section Al.5.2.5, respectively. 

The model used is the RPM. The average electrostatic potential ifr) at a distance r away from an ion / is related to tire charge density p.(r) by Poisson s equation... 

The energy of scattered or recoiled ions can be measured directly by means of an electrostatic energy analyser. If the TOF method is used, the relation between scattering energy E and TOF is expressed as... 

Here (log cmc) is tire log cmc in tire absence of added electrolyte, is related to tire degree of counterion binding and electrostatic screening and c- is tire ionic strengtli (concentration) of inert electrolyte. Effects of added salt on cmc are illustrated in table C2.3.7. 

Several groups have previously reported parallel implementations of multipole based algorithms for evaluating the electrostatic n-body problem and the related gravitational n-body problem [1, 2]. These methods permit the evaluation of the mutual interaction between n particles in serial time proportional to n logn or even n under certain conditions, with further reductions in computation time from parallel processing. 

The work by Hammett and Taft in the 1950s had been dedicated to the separation and quantification of steric and electronic influences on chemical reactivity. Building on this, from 1964 onwards Hansch started to quantify the steric, electrostatic, and hydrophobic effects and their influences on a variety of properties, not least on the biological activity of drugs. In 1964, the Free-Wilson analysis was introduced to relate biological activity to the presence or absence of certain substructures in a molecule. 

Another way of calculating the electrostatic component of solvation uses the Poisson-Boltzmann equations [22, 23]. This formalism, which is also frequently applied to biological macromolecules, treats the solvent as a high-dielectric continuum, whereas the solute is considered as an array of point charges in a constant, low-dielectric medium. Changes of the potential within a medium with the dielectric constant e can be related to the charge density p according to the Poisson equation (Eq. (41)). 

The final class of methods that we shall consider for calculating the electrostatic compone of the solvation free energy are based upon the Poisson or the Poisson-Boltzmann equatior Ihese methods have been particularly useful for investigating the electrostatic properties biological macromolecules such as proteins and DNA. The solute is treated as a body of co stant low dielectric (usually between 2 and 4), and the solvent is modelled as a continuum high dielectric. The Poisson equation relates the variation in the potential (f> within a mediu of uniform dielectric constant e to the charge density p ... 

The Poisson equation relates the electrostatic potential ([) to the charge density p. The Poisson equation is... 

Many molecular properties can be related directly to the wave function or total electron density. Some examples are dipole moments, polarizability, the electrostatic potential, and charges on atoms. 

The Poisson equation describes the electrostatic interaction between an arbitrary charge density p(r) and a continuum dielectric. It states that the electrostatic potential ([) is related to the charge density and the dielectric permitivity z by... 

Another tool relates to presentation We decided to emphasize molecular modeling m the third edition ex panded its usefulness by adding Spartan electrostatic po tential maps m the fourth and continue this trend m the fifth Molecular models and the software to make their own models not only make organic chemistry more ac cessible to students who are visual learners they enrich the educational experience for all... 

Energy, geometry, dipole moment, and the electrostatic potential all have a clear relation to experimental values. Calculated atomic charges are a different matter. There are various ways to define atomic charges. HyperChem uses Mulliken atomic charges, which are commonly used in Molecular Orbital theory. These quantities have only an approximate relation to experiment their values are sensitive to the basis set and to the method of calculation. 

The force constants in the equations are adjusted empirically to repro duce experimental observations. The net result is a model which relates the "mechanical" forces within a stmcture to its properties. Force fields are made up of sets of equations each of which represents an element of the decomposition of the total energy of a system (not a quantum mechanical energy, but a classical mechanical one). The sum of the components is called the force field energy, or steric energy, which also routinely includes the electrostatic energy components. Typically, the steric energy is expressed as... 

Response to Electric and Acoustic Fields. If the stabilization of a suspension is primarily due to electrostatic repulsion, measurement of the zeta potential, can detect whether there is adequate electrostatic repulsion to overcome polarizabiUty attraction. A common guideline is that the dispersion should be stable if > 30 mV. In electrophoresis the appHed electric field is held constant and particle velocity is monitored using a microscope and video camera. In the electrosonic ampHtude technique the electric field is pulsed, and the sudden motion of the charged particles relative to their counterion atmospheres generates an acoustic pulse which can be related to the charge on the particles and the concentration of ions in solution (18). 

Electrostatic charges are also geaerated whea Hquids move ia coatact with other materials, Hquid or sofld, eg, duriag pumping of gasoliae. Serious iadustrial hazards caused by static ia chemical and related fields have been described (28), and a study of accidents ia the chemical iadustry revealed that 115 out of 1600 accideats, or 7%, were ascribed to static electricity (29) (see Plant safety). 

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