ECE106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 34: Electric Field

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Course: ECE106
• Professor: All

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Therefore, there will be no charge on the inside surface! All the charge has to be on the outer surface. Any shape of a conductor would have no charge on the inside surface. So let us look at a more complex situation. The charge inside the object has to be zero. What is the field inside there? it has to be zero. As you bring the hollow object in the electric field, you may get a negative charge on the outside surface on one side and a positive charge on the outside surface on the other side of the object. But you have no charge on the inside surfaces.