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Question - In the Van de Graaff generator shown in Figure, a rubber belt carries electrons up through a small hole in a large hollow spherical metal shell. The electrons come off the upper part of the belt and drift through a wire to the outer surface of the metal shell, so that the metal shell acquires a sizable negative charge, approximately uniformly distributed over the sphere. At a time when the sphere has acquired a sizable charge -Q, approximately how much work must be done by the motor to move one more electron from the base (a distance h below the sphere) to the upper pulley (located a distance R/2 from the center of the hollow sphere)? Explain your work, and state explicitly what approximations you had to make.