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madafo3435
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- Homework Statement
- I have seen that in an introductory book on electricity and magnetism, they make the observation that in a solid conductive material, charges are redistributed by being able to move freely in the solid due to its conductivity, and they move until they reach an electrostatic configuration. , that is, after some time they stop. All of this is understandable to me. My problem is that, then the book mentions that the field inside the solid will be 0. This last one is not clear to me, because, if I had a conductive solid wait, and I put two equal positive charges in it, they will repel and they will reach an electrostatic configuration at some point, but the field in the entire sphere will not be 0. I will place the fragment of the book where it justifies my concern:
"In the interior of such a conductor, in the static case, we can state confidently that the electric field must be zero. If it weren’t, charges would have to move."
I do not understand this justification. Could someone clarify this for me please?
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