Question:
Derive the Poisson integral formula in three dimensions as given in the previous subsection.
Answer:
In two dimensions the source distribution drops out completely. In three dimensions, both the source and dipole distributions stay.
In particular, you cannot get to be zero. You can however take so that it only involves the given on the boundary, not the unknown radial derivative of .
Then you will need to combine
If you cannot find the unit vector in spherical coordinates, evaluate it as with expressed in spherical coordinates. Use trig to clean up the dot product a bit.
Also, in an earlier homework you, hopefully, showed that in spherical coordinates