Pre-Quantum Electrodynamics
Propertiesems.es.c.p
Basic Properties of a Conductor
- (i) \({\bf E} = 0\) inside a conductor.
- (ii) \(\rho = 0\) inside a conductor.
- (iii) Any net charge resides on the surface.
- (iv) A conductor is an equipotential.
- (v) \({\bf E}\) is perpendicular to the surface, just outside the conductor.}
Note that (iv) links directly with our second case of solving Poisson's equation above: for a system of conductors held at fixed potentials, the solution is unique.
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