Re: capacitance of a disk

[Bob Sciamanda <trebor@VELOCITY.NET>]

Dave Bowman wrote:
> . . .
> BTW, in case anyone is interested, I solved the problem by making a
> transformation to a coordinate system whose surfaces of constant
> coordinate were a nested family of confocal oblate spheroids that were
l>locally orthogonal to another confocal nested set of hyperboloids of
> revolution (of one sheet).   . . .

Smythe's calculation ends with the statement:
"This problem can also be solved by oblate spheroidal harmonics (5.271)"
In section (5.271) Smythe solves several problems with oblate spheroidal
harmonics - but not the disk.

Bob Sciamanda (W3NLV)
Physics, Edinboro Univ of PA (em)
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