The mutual inductance
of two coaxial circles of radius
and
with
centers at a distance
apart is given in cgs units by
where
is the speed of light, and in (19.29.11),
The method of §19.29(ii) uses (19.29.18), (19.29.16), and (19.29.15) to produce
where
and
is the square of the maximum (upper signs) or minimum (lower signs) distance
between the circles. Application of (19.29.4) and (19.29.7)
with
,
,
, and
yields
or, by (19.21.3),
A simpler form of the result is
References for other inductance problems solvable in terms of elliptic integrals are given in Grover (1946, pp. 8 and 283).