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Grade 12Electrostatics

a conducting shell with a charge inside it is placed in uniform electric field. force experienced by the charge?

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10 Years agoGrade 12
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Profile image of Sooraj menon vk
10 Years ago
force experienced by it will be zero. as F=qE,as net electric field inside the shell is zero(provided it’s metallic),because the electrons rearrange themselves and cancel out the field produced inside the shell.hope your doubt is clarified.