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Electrostatic Potential Energy of a Sphere/Shell of Charge
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[QUOTE="hutchphd, post: 6486970, member: 635497"] I think the question is inherently related to the self-energy of a point charge and is not at all elementary. In fact it is better to think about assembling the spherical shell from infinity in a spherically symmetric manner. Then we ask the additional work required to bring that shell to some finite radius r. One might think this is cheating but it all works out. But a finite "point" charge is a singularity and classically requires infinite forces to contain it. get used to not worrying about it and in fact we seldom need to. My LaTeX seems kaput also [/QUOTE]
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