Recent content by Amit Kumar Basistha

No I don't have a reference. Our Prof asked us to solve the problem in the case of the sphere and then asked us as a separate question to do it for the Ellipsoid

My understanding why the question mentions far away is because if the point is near the surface of the ellipsoid then there might be issues with the spherical harmonics expansion as the radius of the ellipsoid is not uniform. So, far away means you can safely assume that it's distance from the...

My initial idea was to first parametrize the ellipse as ##(a\sin(\theta')\cos(\phi'),b\sin(\theta')\sin(\phi'),c\cos(\theta'))## and then calculate ##\theta,\phi## in terms of these coordinates. I then did the coordinate transform ##x\to\frac{x}{a},y\to\frac{y}{b},z\to\frac{z}{c}## to convert it...