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Consider a spherical shell with radius R and surface charge density σ. By integrating the electric...

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Consider a spherical shell with radius R and surface chargedensity σ. By integrating the electric field, find the potentialoutside and inside the shell. You should find that the potential isconstant inside the shell. Why?

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Electric field inside the shell is zero as there is no enclosedcharge inside and due to spherical symmetry from the Gausss law weget that E is zero inside And the electric field    See Answer
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