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The integrals: $$ \oint \frac{r\,dr\,d\phi}{\left(L^2+r^2+h^2+2Lr\cos\phi\right)^{3/2}}\\ \oint \frac{dx\,dy}{\left((L+x)^2+y^2+h^2\right)^{3/2}} $$

enter image description hereIf we have a point charge at the origin and we want to find the flux through a disk of radius $R$ which is located at $(x,0,z)$ and lies parallel to the $x-y$ plane we will have to do a tricky integral. We can write down the exact $E.dA$ or we can try and find the solid angle (turns out it is like finding the flux through an ellipse at $(0,0,z)$).

What I'm looking for is the answer to that integral or the solid angle. I thought the integral wasn't doable. But recently I came across a physical way of finding it using greens reciprocity theorem. If you can find it from that, then the integral should be doable as well!

To be clear: this is entirely a math problem. We have an inverse square vector field. We want its flux through a disk. for example take the (x=0) situation.we can simply use gauss law and just find the solid angle to obtain the flux.ot write out the integral by using r and theta as variables.but even at this situation doing it with dxdy integral is tough.

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  • I dont have access to LaTeX to write down the integral but its simple.the hard part is evaluating it.c'mon people please help me in this!! – iman Aug 08 '13 at 06:33
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  • the whiff of desperation will not help you much here, 2) you are getting no response because your description of the problem is poor, I suggest you link to a picture of the geometry and the equation.
  • – Ron Gordon Aug 08 '13 at 13:29
  • you are right Mr.Gordon but I couldnt write the integral itself in LaTeX so I had to go with this crappy description.I added a picture.hope it helps.and to be clear:I know how to write the integral.trick is how to do this? I get an elliptic in cartesian.sadly! – iman Aug 08 '13 at 13:49
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    @iman: for future reference, use MathJax (see explanation here: http://meta.math.stackexchange.com/questions/5020/mathjax-basic-tutorial-and-quick-reference ) in order to typeset mathematics as I did. – Ben Grossmann Aug 08 '13 at 14:10