Uniqueness theorem for Poisson's equation

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Proving an important theorem that has applications in electrostatics and Newtonian gravity. The theorem states that solutions to Poisson's equation are unique, possibly up to an additive constant (depending on whether Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions are given).

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Love your work! You explained well in this video, thank you so much for uploading this.

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You should've mentioned that this is one of several uniqueness theorems (this one is for Dirichlet problem). In particular, in Electrostatics there is another one for the case when the charges on the conductors are fixed . For example, if you place uncharged sphere in the electric field, the theorem you presented is not useful.

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Thank you Dr. for your lecture . My question is is this uniqueness theorem is holds for sobolev space? If it is please one video for the proof of it.

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