4.I.7B
Part IB, 2008
The energy stored in a static electric field is
where is the associated electric potential, , and is the volume charge density.
(i) Assuming that the energy is calculated over all space and that vanishes at infinity, show that the energy can be written as
(ii) Find the electric field produced by a spherical shell with total charge and radius , assuming it to vanish inside the shell. Find the energy stored in the electric field.