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Homework Statement
The radius and the length of the central wire in a Geiger tube are 0.180 mm and 10.0 cm, respectively. The outer surface of the tube is a conducting cylindrical shell that has an inner radius of 1.50 cm. The shell is coaxial with the wire and has the same length (10.0 cm). The tube is filled with a gas that has a dielectric constant of 1.08 and a dielectric strength of 1.00*10^6 V/m.
(a) What is the maximum potential difference that can be maintained between the wire and shell?
(b) What is the maximum charge per unit length on the wire?
Homework Equations
C/L=2[tex]\pi\epsilon[/tex]/ln[tex]a/b[/tex]
The Attempt at a Solution
I am completely befuddled by this. I'm not sure where to start even, I'd just like some one to please point me towards the start. I have no trouble working with single cylinders or with parallel plates but this is just beyond confusing to me. Advice? Thank you in advanced.
edit:whoa...that equation came out ugly...