Green functions and wormholes ... for beginners
A
class project and related thoughts, by T Curtright, U of
Miami,
presented at the University of Missouri - Columbia, 6 June 2018.
Comments on the method of images:
Green
(1828)
==> Kelvin
(1879-1883)
==> Sommerfeld
(1897)
Example with an emphasis on geometry: G for the 2D ring using p-norm wormholes.
Hyper-spheres, spheroids
and general ellipsoids.
G for the grounded circular disk as determined by Hobson (1900)
and by Davis & Reitz (1971).
Closing provocations
(a.k.a. going "Hoag
wild".)