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The discussion focuses on calculating the current drawn from a voltage source applied between a spherical conductor and a surrounding spherical conducting shell. The inner conductor has a radius 'a', while the conducting shell has an inner radius 'b', with an insulator of resistivity 'rho' filling the space between them. The power density, represented as sigma E^2, must be integrated over the volume of the insulator to compare the total power to the power drawn from the voltage source, expressed as I V.

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A spherical conductor of radius a is located at the center of a spherical conducting shell of inner radius b. The space between the inner conductor and and conducting shell is filled with an insulator of resistivity rho. A thin wire is passed through the outer conductor and insulator shells to the center conductor and voltage V is then applied between the inner conductor and the conducting shell. How much current is drawn from the voltage source?

Integrate the power density (sigma E^2) over the insulator volume and compare the integral power to the power drawn from the voltage source (I V).
 
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