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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 2 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2009 Paper 2 3 iii Solution by
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Take the source at the origin and write . Repeated reflection in places the sources at with strengths , . There are countably infinitely many images; is the original source. A convergent prescription groups adjacent opposite charges:Each bracket is on compact sets away from the source, so the paired series converges absolutely. The individual unsigned point-charge terms would not be absolutely summable. On , reflection pairs the index with ; on , it pairs with . Their distances agree and signs oppose. Symmetric finite cutoffs leave only a vanishing far-tail contribution, proving both zero boundary values. All nonzero-index sources lie outside the slab. This is the centered-source version of the Dirichlet Green function between parallel planes, selected to decay at large transverse distance.
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