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Undergrad Is There a Trick to Integrating with Law of Cos?
Also after being stumped for days, I am pretty sure that the way the law of cosines is layed out... that cosθ is equivalent to Adjasent / Hyp = b/r which would simplify the entire denominator to a simple r^{2} - b^{2} This look at all correct? I have added a picture so you can see the layout -
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Undergrad Is There a Trick to Integrating with Law of Cos?
I hope I am posting this in the correct area. This is not specificly a homework question, but something that keeps stumping me on numerous Electrostatic problems. When attempting to Intigrate for finding the electric field or potential, I frequently end up with an integral over the form ∫∫∫...