The capacitance of integrated-circuit elements

The purpose of this note is to demonstrate that it is possible to modify a technique that was originally developed for calculations involving the scattering of electromagnetic waves from diverse-shaped objects and use it in calculations involving integrated-circuit elements. The technique is the “method of moments”, which was previously kept in the domain of researchers and graduate students in electromagnetic theory. It is now entering into undergraduate education. We develop the technique using no more knowledge than that gained in an introductory courses in electrostatics and in matrix manipulation