Tuesday, 5 September 2017

homework and exercises - Why doesn't vecE=frac14piepsilon0intfracrhohatr;dxdydzr2 blow up at r=0, when rho is finite?


Electric field at (x,y,z) produced by a continuous distribution of charges is given by:E(x,y,z)=14πϵ0ρ(x,y,z)ˆrdxdydzr2.

Now, as Edward Purcell in his book writes :




This equation can be used to find the field at any point within the distribution. The integrand doesn't blow up at r=0 because the volume element in the numerator is in that limit proportional to r2dr. That is to say, so long as ρ remains finite everywhere, even in the interior or of a charge on the boundary of a charge distribution.



Why does the equation doesn't blow up at r=0? Why does the volume become r2dr at limit?




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