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    Electrostatics - charges on spheres and work done in moving them

    thants so far or the excellent help status, however I am still a little confused, why will dr go to zero? isn't that the thickness of the shell? why does that alter, am i looking at this in the wrong way, i though it was the shell moving from infinity ( infinitely small charge as it has...
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    Electrostatics - charges on spheres and work done in moving them

    thanks, but one last question, i can discard all terms of dr^2 or higher as they are significantly small, is that correct? also I am confused in the potwential, arnt i moving one charge from infinity towards the other charge? also how do i get this in the dw form?
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    Electrostatics - charges on spheres and work done in moving them

    yes i meant to write: as Q2=p.(4/3pi(r^3-(r-dr)^3) --->and p= Q/(4/3)pi.R^3 therefore Q2= (Q(r^3-(r-dr)^3))/R^3 thats the simplified as it was meant to be written in terms of Q. Im not sure of the formula but work done is = qQ/4pi epsilon0 a where a would be the distance one charge has...
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    Electrostatics - charges on spheres and work done in moving them

    hi, this is a great forum here and i was wondering if anyone could lend a helping hand , it would be great. im currently studying at univercity for electronics engineering and have been given some physics questions to work onover the holidays. I ahve spend quite some time on this question...
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