Essential University Physics (3rd Edition)
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Author: Richard Wolfson
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Chapter 21, Problem 12FTD
You’re sitting inside an uncharged, hollow spherical shell. Suddenly someone dumps a billion coulombs of charge on the shell, distributed uniformly. What happens to the electric field at your location?
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Essential University Physics (3rd Edition)
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