... of 0.33 m and 0.6 m are seperated by a distance that is large compared to the diameters. The spheres are connected by a thin wire and are charged to 7.8 micro coulombs. The permittivitity of a vacuum is 8.85419*10^-12 C^2/Nm^2. What is the potential of the system of spheres when the reference potential is taken to be 0 at infinity. Answer in units of kV.
The thought I had for this problem was this: Initially, all the charge is in one sphere. After a while, the charge distributes itself, leaving the potentials on each sphere to be equal. After setting V1 equal to V2, you can solve for one of the charges which resides on one sphere. Following this, you can plug that number into the potential equation V = kq/r, with r being the radius of the sphere holding the charge previously found. Unfortunately, this isn't giving me the correct answer. Any help would be appreciated.
2007-03-14
11:19:32
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mmrage318
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