A net charge is placed on a hollow conducting sphere. How does the net charge distribute itself?

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Naomi Deleon

9 December, 15:34

A net charge is placed on a hollow conducting sphere. How does the net charge distribute itself?

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Gabriel Johns · Answer 1

when charge is placed on hollow conducting shell then due to mutual repulsion of charges they all will distribute itself on the surface of the conductor

And since the distribution is due to uniform force in all directions

So here all charge will uniformly distribute itself on the outer surface of the conductor

So we can also say that charge density on the surface will remain uniform