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5. Consider a system consisting of an insulating sphere of radius a, with total charge Q...

5. Consider a system consisting of an insulating sphere of radius a, with total charge Q uniformly spread throughout its volume, surrounded by a conducting spherical inner radius b and outer radius c, having a total charge of -3Q. (a) How much charge is on each surface of the spherical conducting shell? (b) Find the electric potential for all r, assuming v=0 at infinity.

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