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Homework Statement
Find the electric field a height z above a square of side length a with uniform surface charge \sigma
Homework Equations
The Attempt at a Solution
E=\frac{z\sigma}{4\pi\epsilon_0}\int^{a/2}_{-a/2}\int^{a/2}_{-a/2}\frac{dx dy}{(x^2+y^2+z^2)^{3/2}}
(in the z direction). However, unless I maple'd wrong, this gives the wrong answer. Can you anyone see a problem with the way the integral is set up?