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Cyrus
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Hello, Question again.
If we have a conductor, then according to Gauss, all the charged particles will migrate to the surface where they are furthest away from each other. This seems to make logical sense. But what if I have a charged sphere and now every particle on the surface of the sphere is charged. I decided to add one charged particle directly in the center of the sphere. Wont it just stay there. It won't migrate, because there is equal charge all over the surface of the sphere, so it will be repelled in all directions from every piece of the sphere, and the net force will be zero, so it should sit there.
If we have a conductor, then according to Gauss, all the charged particles will migrate to the surface where they are furthest away from each other. This seems to make logical sense. But what if I have a charged sphere and now every particle on the surface of the sphere is charged. I decided to add one charged particle directly in the center of the sphere. Wont it just stay there. It won't migrate, because there is equal charge all over the surface of the sphere, so it will be repelled in all directions from every piece of the sphere, and the net force will be zero, so it should sit there.