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Energy in electric field of an electron?

I am just trying to get an intuition for the Griffiths equation no. 2.45, where work done to establish a field E is given by Say we want to solve it for electric field due to an electron (point-charge)...
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Using Variation of Energy for a Dielectric to define the Electric Field

I have been reading through Zangwill's Modern Electrodynamics on my own, and I am confused about something in section 6.7.1, concerning the variation of total energy $U$ of a dielectric in the ...
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