A sphere of radius 10 mm that carries a charge of 8nC is attached at the end of an insulating string and is whirled in a circle. The rotation frequency is 100? rad/s. What average current does this rotating charge represent ?
Surface area of the sphere is . For a conducting sphere all charges will be on surface area, so surface charge density is . Current for any spinning sphere with constant charge density is given by for a particular point on the surface. Now to get the total current we have to integrate the above equation . Now integrating we have
Now we have r=10mm=.01m and , so we have
A
Now we have r=10mm=.01m and , so we have
A