JEE Main 2017 Physics question
The energy stored in the electric field produced by a metal sphere is J. If the sphere contains C charge, its radius will be:
Answer: (2)
Solution
A charged conducting sphere has no field inside it, so all the field energy lies outside and equals the self-energy
U = = = ·,
using for an isolated sphere. Substituting the numbers,
4.5 = {
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