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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 2 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2018 Paper 2 3 d Solution by
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Let be reflection of the interior source across the equatorial plane. Using the ball Green's function from part (c), formBoth terms vanish on the unit sphere. On the flat disk , distances to reflected points coincide, and the same is true of their inversion images, so the difference is zero there as well. Only is inside the upper half-ball; the reflected source is in the lower half-ball, and both inversion images lie outside the full ball. Thus there is exactly one interior delta source, of the required strength.
Explicitly, with and stars denoting inversion in the unit sphere,This is the Dirichlet Green function inside a hemisphere, constructed from four image-source terms.
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