Conductors

Building off Gauss’ Law

• Static equilibrium

• Claim: E=0 inside any conductor at static equilibrium

  • charges in conductor move to make E field inside!

    • and if E=/= 0 then charge feels force and moves

• Where is the force on an conductor

  • THERE IS NO TANGENTIAL force only the force normal to the area

Conductors in silly situations

• A charge inside a hollow conductor

R_{1}=inside-radius \
R_{2}=Outside-radius \
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