As a person moves about in a dry environment, electric charge accumulates on the person’s body. Once it is at high voltage, either positive or negative, the body can discharge via sparks and shocks. Consider a human body isolated from ground, with the typical capacitance 150 pF. (a) What charge on the body will produce a potential of 10.0 kV? (b) Sensitive electronic devices can be destroyed by electrostatic discharge from a person. A particular device can be destroyed by a discharge releasing an amount of energy of 250 uJ. To what voltage on the body does this situation correspond?

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As a person moves about in a dry environment, electric charge accumulates on the person’s body.
Once it is at high voltage, either positive or negative, the body can discharge via sparks and shocks.
Consider a human body isolated from ground, with the typical capacitance 150 pF. (a) What charge on
the body will produce a potential of 10.0 kV? (b) Sensitive electronic devices can be destroyed by
electrostatic discharge from a person. A particular device can be destroyed by a discharge releasing an
amount of energy of 250 uJ. To what voltage on the body does this situation correspond? 

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