138 ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORY potential in the space between the spheres is a= Va 5.9. A voltage Mis applied between two coaxial conducting cylinders of radius a and 5 (a <8) ting end eiects, show that if the outer cylinder is grounded, the potential in che space between the cylinders is In b Ine in = Ina 5.10. ‘The plates ofa thin parallel-plate capacitor of area 4 are separated by a distance 4, Show thar iPa sheet of meral of thickness # is inserted between the plates, dhe capacitance is increased by the amount eat ac SAL. A capacitor is made of two seta spheres of radii @ and 6 which ate separated by a distance d > a,b. Show that the eapackance of this or is approximately capac: 1 3 6 = Aref 5.12. Show that for a given voltage the electric field at the surface of the inner sphere of @ concentric spherical capacitor is least if the radins of this sphere is one-half the internal radius of the outer sphere. 5.13. Show that for a given voltage the electric field at the surface of he inner cylinder of a coaxial cylindrical capacitor is least if the radius of this cylinder is [je of the interaal radius of Ue outer cylinder (neglect end cflects 5414. A capacitor is made of three conducting thin-walled concentric spheres of radii a, b, and e (2 <0 <0). The inner and te outer spheres are connected by a fine instlated wire passing through a small hole in the intermediate sphere, Shaw chat the capacitance of this capacitor is c= Analg — 5) and find how the electrie charge placed on the sphere 6 distributes itsell between the two surlaces of the «phere, 5.15. Show dat if the inner conductor in Problem 5.2 is connected by a fine insulating conducting wire passing through a small hole in the outer conductor ww a distant uncharged conducting sphere of radius «, the sphere will acquite a charge which in the frst approximation is