Uniformly Charged Disk above a grounded conducting plane

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A uniformly charged disk has radius R. It was a charge density
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and is located above the conducting plane at a distance a. The disk is parallel to the conducting plane. Find the electrostatic potential at (0,0,z) in the region above the plane. The conducting plane is grounded
 
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Draw out the disk and pick a point on the z axis where you want to measure the E field. Then resolve the E field into its components (some will cancell) Then use coulombs law and think how you can find Q of the ring. (Think linear charge density)
 
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