I'm working the following problem:
Use equation 2.29 to calculate the potential inside a uniformly charged solid sphere of radius R and total charge q.
Equation 2.29 is as follows:
$$ V(r) = \frac {1}{4\pi \epsilon_0} \int \frac {\rho(r \prime) }{\mu} d \tau\prime$$
In which $ \mu $ is what I've used to denote the separation vector, because I don't know what script r is in MathJax, and the primes are used by the author to avoid confusion over similar variables rather than indicate derivatives.
So I tried to work this and got the wrong expression, and then decided to take a peek at the solution (attached below). I understand what he's doing up until he integrates over $d\theta$. What is he doing? How does he get integrate and then after that, how does he arrive at the absolute value expression? After that interval I pick up his trail again but between those two questions, I'm completely lost.
(from Introduction to Electrodynamics 4th Ed by Griffiths)
Answer
A good explanation may be found at: http://solar.physics.montana.edu/qiuj/phys317/sol7.pdf
In more depth, what you're basically asking about is what's the substitution used to do the integration. This requires a little bit of art, but the answer is in the linked PDF and is explained sufficiently well that I won't repeat most of it here. Simply, you perform a substitution where u is equal to the argument of your square root. From here, the integration process is just turning a crank using a standard result.
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