Hi,
It seems that there is no much examples of this particular case.
OK, we all know how to write the general solution to Laplace equation in spherical coordinates in terms of Legendre polynomials (when there is azimuthal symmetry).
There are a lot of cases here but I would like to know how to attack the problem of a sphere held at potential V with a charge 1 outside a distance d.
I know you will have an image charge inside the sphere a distance d*a^2 from sphere's center.
But how to account for this system of image charge and original charge? Can we simply add a term (outside the sum of Legendre Polynomial) ?
Thanks in advance
It seems that there is no much examples of this particular case.
OK, we all know how to write the general solution to Laplace equation in spherical coordinates in terms of Legendre polynomials (when there is azimuthal symmetry).
There are a lot of cases here but I would like to know how to attack the problem of a sphere held at potential V with a charge 1 outside a distance d.
I know you will have an image charge inside the sphere a distance d*a^2 from sphere's center.
But how to account for this system of image charge and original charge? Can we simply add a term (outside the sum of Legendre Polynomial) ?
Thanks in advance