a thin metallic spherical shell contains a charge Q on it. a point charge q is placed at de centre of de shell and another charge q" is placed outside it. all de 3 charges r +ve.wat is de force on de charge at de centre?wat is de force on de central charge due to de shell ?

nandan shukla, 13 years ago

Grade:Upto college level

5 Answers

AKASH GOYAL AskiitiansExpert-IITD

420 Points

13 years ago

Dear Nandan

This is the concept of electrostatic shielding. Electric field lines can not penetrate the mettalic shell and net force on charge q is zero.

Force on q due to q" will be towards left and for the net force to be zero the force by shell will be towards left but magnitude can not be calculated as distances are not given.

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vikas askiitian expert

509 Points

13 years ago

force on the charge at cetrer = force bw shell & charge + force bw charge & charge

electric field inside a spherical shell is 0 , so F = qE = 0

force due to shell on charge at center is 0 ...

net force = force bw two charges = kq²/r²

force due to shel = 0

mathew jacob

16 Points

13 years ago

force is 0

as the resultant force exp by q due to the shell is 0 as electric feild due to the shell is 0 inside the shell

now due to electrostatic sheilding of the shell electric feild due to q'' is sheilded and hence the force on q due to q'' is also 0

thank you

Krish Gupta

askIITians Faculty 82 Points

3 years ago

This is a very trivial question and asked by

Hello Nandan,

This is the concept of electrostatic shielding. Electric field lines can not penetrate the mettalic shell and net force on charge q is zero.

Force on q due to q" will be towards left and for the net force to be zero the force by shell will be towards left but magnitude can not be calculated as distances are not given.

All the best.

Krish Gupta

AskiitiansExpert-IIT

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Hope it clears the doubt and I hope it gets approval.

ankit singh

askIITians Faculty 614 Points

3 years ago

The charge of q1 outside the shell is positive and the metal is observed to be in a spherical shape. A negative charge is produced as a result of the induced positive charge from outside. Always an electric field will be zero inside the shell and electrons will move if and only of the electric force is applied. The movement of electrons gets stopped when the electric field comes in from different directions. Thus the electric field becomes zero. So there will not any force on q.