Personally, I don't know of physicists who reject the validity of a new model simply because it has yet to be tested (as opposed to it being fundamentally untestable). Things like string theory get a lot of flack, in my humble opinion, simply because people become so enraptured with the...
That did it! Thanks so much, guys; I'd been sitting on this problem for over a day. For anyone else who, like me, got stumped by the math of this problem, here's a recap:
1. Complete the square of the denominator. You will have one squared term containing r and another with just a constant.
2...
Thanks so much for the quick replies. I'll convert my work to LaTeX and post it up shortly, but since you mentioned it, is there a more straightforward way to do the integral that you suggest I try? It surprises me that this has taken me so much effort considering that it's not even one of the...
Ah, I think I understand what you're saying... but I'm still not getting the answer I expect. I broke up the integral into two integrals (one from 0 to \frac{h}{\sqrt{2}} and the other from \frac{h}{\sqrt{2}} to h \sqrt{2}, but when I work this out and use the new limits of integration, I end up...
[SOLVED] Electric Potential of Uniformly Charged Cone
I'm actually a senior in physics graduating this year, but wanted to review some E&M before grad school in the fall. I was apparently never assigned this problem during my sophomore year, but it's from Griffiths. I'm also aware that this has...