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I figured that I should share my professors response, so you don't keep going around in circles. If we denote the top surface of the plate A, then the area of the plate Aplate=2A Then +η=Qplate/Aplate, therefore Qplate=+2ηA IMPORTANT: No matter how the initially uniform charge distribution on...

I was assuming that since the plane is infinite and has a "fixed uniform surface charge density -η", that it would not be considered a conductor and the charge wouldn't move, regardless of what was placed next to it. So would the plate be neutral on top and positive on bottom, since all the...

Homework Statement In the "Before" scenario, there is conductive plate in electrostatic equilibrium with uniform surface charge density +η (the plate has some thickness but the width and length are significantly larger). In the "After" scenario, an infinite plane of negative charge with fixed...