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For a conductor in electrostatic equilibrium, which of the following properties are true?

a) Any excess charge is uniformly spread throughout the volume of the conductor.
b) The electric field inside is zero.
c) The entire conductor is at the same potential.

User Godice
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Answer:

b) The electric field inside is zero.

Step-by-step explanation:

This is simply because the charges in the field will be in motion, thus this charges kind of spread around to make the conductor field zero.

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