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Electric Capacitance, Energy of an Electric Field

Problem 3.101

Find the capacitance of an isolated ball-shaped conductor of radius R1R_{1} surrounded by an adjacent concentric layer of dielectric with permittivity ε\varepsilon and outside radius R2R_{2}.

Reveal Answer
C=4πε0εR11+(ε1)R1/R2C=\frac{4 \pi \varepsilon_{0} \varepsilon R_{1}}{1+(\varepsilon-1) R_{1} / R_{2}}