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An isolated coductor, initially free from charge, is charge by repeated conacts with a plate, which afrer each contact has a charge Q due to some mechanism.If q is the charge on the conductor after the first operation, prove that the maximum charge that can be give to the conductor in this way is `Qq//Q-q`.

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