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Hi guys, Well I don't understand what you mean by brute force. Any clue? I would like to try to solve it by myself. Also, it sounds a little bit strange that, well, the Gauss' law is not valid in this case, but the assumption of the *same* potential when the spheres are connected still...

Hi dauto, yes actually there is a publication on this (doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.26.721). But this is a Panofsky & Phillips problem (1.8). I tried a lot of things, and indeed this is a really hard situation, since we are all used to deal with inverse square law behavior. Let me know if you find...

Hi, I am trying to find this answer, any news on this? I struggled, tried to use Gauss' law with the new E field, but it seems that the charges in both sides of equation cancel...

I am stuck on this too Hi! I was just trying to solve this problem through this same approach (make the substitutions \overline{x}=\sin(\theta)\cos(\phi)/r, etc...). But it turns out to be *very* complicated. Do you have finished this one? Can you show me more explicit steps? Thanks a lot!

Homework Statement Consider a spherically symmetric charge distribution \rho = \rho (r) Homework Equations By dividing the charge distribution into spherical shells, find the potential \phi and the electric field strength \bf{E} in terms of \rho (r) The Attempt at a Solution The...