Lecture -- Solving Laplace's Equation

This video outlines a recipe for solving Laplace's equation for electrostatics and then steps through an example where the electric potential and electric fields are calculated between the plates of a parallel plate capacitor.

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[reillyjensen]

How do you solve it when you don't ignore fringing effects? Is the PDE too general to have a closed form solution?

[sarahkimani]

this is probably a stupid question but how does the double integration equal v(z) = az + b, like the process coz i dont understand