The outer sphere of a spherical air capacitor is earthed. For increasing its capacitance
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(b) In spherical capacitor $C = 4\pi {\varepsilon _0}K\,\left( {\frac{{ab}}{{b - a}}} \right)$ ==> $C \propto K$
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