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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 2 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2023 Paper 2 3 c i Solution by
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Let be the reflection of the source in the equatorial plane. For a source in the upper half-ball, the Dirichlet Green function inside a hemisphere isBoth terms vanish on the spherical boundary. On the flat boundary , the two source distances are equal, and the distances to their spherical image points are also equal, so the difference vanishes there too. The reflected physical source is in the lower half-ball and both inverted image points are outside the sphere. Therefore the only source singularity in the desired region is the original one, with coefficient in . This combines reflection with the spherical method of images.
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