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The potential due to a circular parallel plate condenser

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

E. R. Love
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Department of Mathematics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia 3052.
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Atkinson, Young and Brezovich [1: 1983] gave a formula for the potential distribution due to a circular disc condenser with arbitrary spacing parameter к (the ratio of separation of the discs to their radius). This was simpler to calculate than the formulation which I gave in [8: 1949]; but unfortunately it fails to satisfy two requirements, as the present paper shows. Together with [8], this paper shows that the potential formulated in [8] satisfies all requirements.

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Copyright © University College London 1990

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