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Homework Statement
Suppose a uniformly charged wire starts at point 0 and rises vertically along the positive y-axis to a length L. Determine the components of the electric field Ex and Ey at point (x,0). That is, calculate [tex]\vec{}E[/tex] near one end of a long wire, in the plane perpendicular to the wire.
Homework Equations
E= KQ/R^2 with a point charge. So I'll be using integration as well.
The Attempt at a Solution
Ditching the vector for now and focusing on magnitude I have
dE = K (dQ/R^2)
[tex]\lambda[/tex]dL = dQ (where lambda is the linear charge density)
dE = k[tex]\lambda[/tex]dL/(x^2 +y^2)
pretty much can't figure out how to complete the integration...