Calculating Earth's Capacity as a Conductor

[lionel messi.]

1. Homework Statement :

Taking Earth to be a spherical conductor of diameter 12.8x10^3 km.its capacity will be?



3. The Attempt at a Solution :
if Earth is to be taken as a conductor than i think following formula shall be used
C=Aeo/d
where A=pie r^2
but how i'll calculate distance?(if the above formulae will be used)

 

[Infinitum]

Hi lionel

d is the radius of Earth. But the area is not [itex]\pi r^2[/itex]. You need to find the outer surface area...what is the surface area of a sphere?

 

[lionel messi.]

got it...! thanks :D..