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​A hollow insulating spherical shell of inner radius R0 and outer radius R1 is positively charged with a charge density of p(r) = p0(1 – (r/R1)3).


A hollow insulating spherical shell of inner radius R0 and outer radius R1 is positively charged with a charge density of p(r) = p0(1 – (r/R1)3). A positive charge +Q is placed in the center of the hollow sphere and a concentric grounded conducting shell with inner radius R2 and outer radius R3 surrounds the hollow sphere. (The conducting shell was neutral before it is grounded.) 

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(a) What is the total charge on the insulating sphere? 

(b) What charges are on the inner and outer surfaces of the conducting shell? 

(c) Find the electric field at all points in space; plot this as a function of r. 

(d) What about your answers for (a) and (b) would be different if the conducting shell was not grounded (and was not given any charge)?

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