7.6 Exercise 20

A lightning bolt strikes a tree, moving 20.0 C of charge through a potential difference of $1.00 \times 10^{2} \text{MV}.$ (a) What energy was dissipated? (b) What mass of water could be raised from $15 ° \text{C}$ to the boiling point and then boiled by this energy? (c) Discuss the damage that could be caused to the tree by the expansion of the boiling steam.