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aim1732
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We are presenting you a very perplexing but interesting problem
which you may have probably encountered in electrostatics.
We were trying to calculate the potential of an infinite line
charge distribution at a general point by first principle method i.e.
the usual integration of the potential of the differential charges on
the line charge extending from -∞ to +∞ .We got an indeterminate
form[ln(∞ )-ln(-∞)].
We realized that the reference for the potential can not be set to
infinity as we unknowingly did for the differential charge appearing
in the integration which is wrong for infinite charge
distributions.However we can not decide how to set the zero of
potential at some other point. Please help us...
Regards
aim1732 and Mayukh Nath.
which you may have probably encountered in electrostatics.
We were trying to calculate the potential of an infinite line
charge distribution at a general point by first principle method i.e.
the usual integration of the potential of the differential charges on
the line charge extending from -∞ to +∞ .We got an indeterminate
form[ln(∞ )-ln(-∞)].
We realized that the reference for the potential can not be set to
infinity as we unknowingly did for the differential charge appearing
in the integration which is wrong for infinite charge
distributions.However we can not decide how to set the zero of
potential at some other point. Please help us...
Regards
aim1732 and Mayukh Nath.