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Grade 10Electrostatics

why should electrostatic field be zero inside a conducor?

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7 Years agoGrade 10
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7 Years ago
In electrostatics free charges in a goodconductor reside only on the surface. So the free charge inside theconductor is zero. So the field in it is caused by charges on the surface. Since charges are of the same nature and distribution is UNIFORM, theelectric fields cancel each other.

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