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

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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.
User Vimal Venugopalan
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