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3 years ago

Why must the electric field be normal to the surface at every point of a charged conductor?

1 answer:

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-- If the field were inclined to the surface, then it would have
some component parallel to the surface.

-- Then, since we're talking about a conductor, the charges
on the object would move in response to that component
of the field, until there was no longer any component of the
field trying to move them.

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