Solution 5.

See text and/or instructor's solution manual.

Answer.   Apply Leibniz's rule

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Hence the integrand vanishes and  [Graphics:../Images/PoissonIntegralModHome_gr_223.gif]  which implies that  [Graphics:../Images/PoissonIntegralModHome_gr_224.gif]  is harmonic.  

Solution.   Calculate the partial derivatives of the term   [Graphics:../Images/PoissonIntegralModHome_gr_225.gif]  in the integrand  

                    [Graphics:../Images/PoissonIntegralModHome_gr_226.gif]     and     [Graphics:../Images/PoissonIntegralModHome_gr_227.gif].  

Then calculate the second partial derivatives  

                    [Graphics:../Images/PoissonIntegralModHome_gr_228.gif]     and     
                    
                    [Graphics:../Images/PoissonIntegralModHome_gr_229.gif]

Now apply Leibniz's rule

        [Graphics:../Images/PoissonIntegralModHome_gr_230.gif]

Hence  [Graphics:../Images/PoissonIntegralModHome_gr_231.gif] satisfies Laplace's equation   [Graphics:../Images/PoissonIntegralModHome_gr_232.gif].

Therefore,  [Graphics:../Images/PoissonIntegralModHome_gr_233.gif]  is a harmonic function.  

 

We are done.   

 

Aside.  We can let Mathematica double check our work.

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Now add them together.

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Hence the integrand vanishes which implies that   [Graphics:../Images/PoissonIntegralModHome_gr_248.gif].  

 
















 

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