If the Earth were an isolated spherical capacitor, what would be its capacity?
Radius of the Earth is 6400 km.
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The Earth can be treated as an isolated spherical capacitor whose capacitance can be written as 4 π ε 0 R . Here, R is the radius of the Earth.
Putting the values and solving we get,
C = 7 1 0 μ F
This shows how large is the unit Farad for capacitance. Even a capacitor of the size comparable to the Earth has the capacity in order of 1 0 − 4 F