I did the integral and it came out perfect, and it also works out that if you do the integral than you have actually multiplied every infinitesimal layer by every other infinitesimal layer precisely once. I totally get it now, thanks allot. I still don't understand though why my attempts didn't...
Homework Statement
Calculate the electrical energy required to assemble a spherical volume of radius R and charge Q, homogeneous density ρ
the answer is (3/5)Q/R
the textbook says you have to build the volume integral one layer of sphere at a time, I'll get back to that later. I like...