Calculate the electric field at height h above the center of a square plate of size 2a×2a with uniform surface charge density η (both direction and magnitude). Verify that in the limit of large a the result agrees with the field of an infinite uniformly charged plane.

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Calculate the electric field at height h above the center of a square plate of size 2a×2a with uniform surface charge density η (both direction and magnitude). Verify that in the limit of large a the result agrees with the field of an infinite uniformly charged plane.
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