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Homework Statement
Help me understand why electric potential can ever be a nonzero value at a point within a charged conductor? I need conceptual reasons to help me make sense of the integration "flaw". (See below.)
Homework Equations
The electric field inside a charged spherical conductor is zero.
The electric potential at any point within a charged conductor is the same as the electric potential on the sphere's surface.
The Attempt at a Solution
But if the equation for electric potential is the integral of the electric field dotted with the displacement vector and E is zero within the conductor---then V=Eds=0 mathematically...So help me understand why electric potential can ever be a nonzero value at a point within a charged conductor? Please use integration to demonstrate your point!