Question

A charge if 2 nC is placed 10cm to the right of a conducting sphere with a diameter of 2 cm. A charge of 5 nC is placed 10 nC to the left of the same sphere. determine the charge at the center of the sphere.

Answer 1

Answer:

The charge at the center of the conducting sphere is zero.

Explanation:

A principle of conductor materials is that the electric field inside a conductor in electrostatic state is always zero. The gauss law says that the flux of a electric field in a closed surface is proportional to the charge enclosed by the surface. Then if the Electric field inside of a conductor is zero, imperatively the charge anywhere inside the conductor is zero too, so the charge at the center of the sphere is zero.