Trouble with the method of images
- 1 July 1982
- journal article
- Published by American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) in American Journal of Physics
- Vol. 50 (7) , 601-607
- https://doi.org/10.1119/1.12786
Abstract
By a seemingly straightforward application of the method of images, we are led to the absurd result that if a point charge q is placed between two conducting plates, then all of the electric flux originating in q will terminate on one of the two plates, and none of it on the other. The error is traced to its source in an improper operation of termwise integration of infinite series and is corrected.Keywords
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