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Potential in a Conductor To be able to understand some experiments and applications of faraday's law we first must look at some other physical laws. The first we will look at is the electric potential inside of a conductor. We know that outside of a spherical charge the field is inversely proportional to the distance from the charge. But what happens if we are inside a charged conductor? Because a conductor allows charges to move and redistribute themselvs any potential inside a (perfect) conductor will be imediately nuetralized. Therefore the change in potential inside of a conductor is always zero. Is this true if the conductor is not a perfect conductor? What would the curve look like if the conductor was a long wire instead of a sphere? |