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Date November 2021 Marks available [Maximum mark: 1] Reference code 21N.2.HL.TZ0.7b.i
Level HL Paper 2 Time zone TZ0
Command term Describe Question number b.i Adapted from N/A
b.i.
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21N.2.HL.TZ0.7b.i

A conducting sphere has radius 48 cm. The electric potential on the surface of the sphere is 3.4 × 105 V.

The sphere is connected by a long conducting wire to a second conducting sphere of radius 24 cm. The second sphere is initially uncharged.

 

(b.i)

Describe, in terms of electron flow, how the smaller sphere becomes charged.

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electrons leave the small sphere «making it positively charged» ✓

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