(a.) A person is placed in a large, hollow, metallic sphere that is insulated from ground. If a large charge is placed on the sphere, will the person be harmed upon touching the inside of the sphere? Justify your answer in details.

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(a.) A person is placed in a large, hollow, metallic sphere that is insulated from ground. If a large charge is placed on the sphere, will the person be harmed upon touching the inside of the sphere? Justify your answer in details.
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  (c.) Assume you want to increase the maximum operating voltage of a parallel-plate capacitor. Describe how you can do that with a fixed plate separation.  
(b.) Looking at your solutions in (a.), can you say a system of charges in Figure 1 is an electric dipole? elaborate your answer in details 
   (c.) Use derived equations in (a.) to evaluate Enet, Vnet and Fnet, given that d = 20 cm and Q = 1.602 nC.
 
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