Concise presentation of the Coulomb electrostatic potential of a uniformly charged cube |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, School of Chemistry, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, United Kingdom;2. Center for Computational Engineering, Mathematics Department, RWTH Aachen University, Schinkelstr. 2, 52062 Aachen, Germany;3. Computational Biomedicine, Institute for Advanced Simulation IAS-5 and Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine INM-9, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany;4. Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 7598, Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, F-75005, Paris, France;5. CNRS, UMR 7598, Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, F-75005, Paris, France;6. Institut Universitaire de France, France;7. Brown Univ, Division of Applied Maths, Providence, RI, USA;8. School of Science, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Shenzhen University Town, Nanshan District, 518055, Chinan |
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Abstract: | We use a novel method to calculate in closed form the Coulomb electrostatic potential created by a uniformly charged cube at an arbitrary point in space. We apply a suitable transformation of variables that allows us to obtain a simple presentation of the electrostatic potential in one-dimensional integral form. The final concise closed form expression of the Coulomb electrostatic potential of the uniformly charged cube is obtained after completing the calculation of the resulting one-dimensional integrals. Such integrals consist of combinations of products of error functions and power functions that can be solved exactly despite their intimidating appearance. The exact analytic formula for the Coulomb electrostatic potential that we derive reflects the symmetry of the cube and is easy to implement. We illustrate its use by calculating the exact values of the electrostatic potential at some points of symmetry such as the center of cube, center of face of cube, center of edge of cube and corner of cube. |
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Keywords: | Electrostatic potential Coulomb interaction Uniformly charged cube |
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