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Another daft chemist question:
I'm looking at two charges spread over two overlapping Gaussians. I want the energy of the interaction, so, I take qq'/r and integrate first over one Gaussian then over the other... except for it all goes up the spout, because the charges are overlapping, and there are a lot of r=0.
There's got to be a really easy way round this, which doesn't involve disrupting the continuity of the Gaussians. What is it??
I'm looking at two charges spread over two overlapping Gaussians. I want the energy of the interaction, so, I take qq'/r and integrate first over one Gaussian then over the other... except for it all goes up the spout, because the charges are overlapping, and there are a lot of r=0.
There's got to be a really easy way round this, which doesn't involve disrupting the continuity of the Gaussians. What is it??