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Exercise 2

Maximum charge of a sphere in air

Theory used: Coulomb's theoremCapacitance of a conducting sphereDielectric strength

A conducting sphere of radius is in air, whose dielectric strength is . Compute the maximum charge the sphere can carry without the surrounding air becoming conducting, and the corresponding potential relative to infinity.

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