A final comment on changes must be made on the subject of solutions manuals.

This is my eleventh engineering textbook, and for the first ten, I consistently
declined to produce a solutions manual. This peculiarity is not due to laziness on my
part but relates rather to some philosophical positions that I, rightly or wrongly,
hold dear. (I will not here burden you with these but have always been happy to
discuss them with anyone who would listen.) My various publishers have always
explained, and I agreed, that the lack of a solutions manual will surely lose some
adoptions. For the present book, the publisher made clear that this time there would
be a solutions manual, whether I, or someone else, did it. Faced with this situation,
I decided that if there was to be a solutions manual, I wanted it to be a good one and
thus determined to do it myself. No graduate or other students were used, and I
personally produced camera ready copy, including all equations and illustrations.
I hope it will be found useful, but since it is my first endeavor along these lines, I
will welcome any comments or criticisms.

Where s is the magnitude of area element and n is unit vector normal to the area element which can
be considered plane as s is small. The electric field E due to thin, infinitely long straight wire of uniform
linear charge density is E = 2 r 0 n where r is the perpendicular distance of the point from the wire
and n is the radial unit vector in the plane normal to the wire passing through the point. The electric
field due to an infinite thin plane sheet of uniform surface charge density is E = 20 n where n is a
unit vector normal to the plane, outward on either side