Conductors and Electric Fields in Electrostatic Equilibrium
Discuss!
Reflect on these questions and take notes on how you would answer them. Then we will share these thoughts together in a class discussion.
A ball with charge −50e lies at the center of a hollow spherical metal shell that has a net charge of −100e.
What are the charges on the shell’s inner surface and outer surface, respectively?
A ball with charge −50e lies off-center inside a hollow spherical metal shell that has a net charge of −100e.
What are the charges on the shell’s inner surface and outer surface, respectively?
A positive charge +Q is kept fixed at the center of a spherical neutral conducting shell. An object with negative charge −Q is brought near the outside of the sphere.
Which picture best represents the charge distributions?
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