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Module 2 : Electrostatics

Lecture 8 : Properties Of Conductors

Recap
In this lecture you have learnt the following
	Conductors are those in which there are free carriers which conduct electricity. In an equilibrium situation, electric
	field cannot exist inside a conductor.
	Electric field may exist on the surface of a conductor which must then be directed normal to the surface of the
	conductor.
	When a conductor is placed in an electric field, charges may be induced on the surface of a conductor.
	Electric field being a conservative field of force, the work done only depends on the end points and not on the path
	connecting them. This enables us to define a potential for the field whose negative gradient gives the electric field.
	As the electric potential is a scalar, it is convenient to compute the potential for a charge distribution and use this
	to calculate the electric field using superposition principle.
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