Consider a neutral conducting sphere. A positive point charge is place...
A negative charge will be induce on the outer surface of the sphere which means that the positive point charge will attract the negative charge and it will accumulate on the outer surface of the sphere, but the thing to be remembered is that still the total charge inside the sphere is same and constant ,i.e, it is still electrically neutral which means that the net charge on the sphere is still zero.
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Consider a neutral conducting sphere. A positive point charge is place...
-uniformly
b)Positive and distributed uniformly
c)Zero
d)Positive and distributed non-uniformly
Answer: c) Zero
Explanation: Since the sphere is neutral, it has an equal amount of positive and negative charges distributed uniformly throughout its surface. When a positive point charge is placed outside the sphere, it will induce a redistribution of charges on the surface of the sphere. The negative charges on the sphere will be attracted towards the positive charge and move closer to it, while the positive charges will be repelled and move away from it. However, the net charge on the sphere will still be zero, as the redistribution of charges will only occur on the surface of the sphere and the total amount of charges on the sphere will remain the same.
Consider a neutral conducting sphere. A positive point charge is place...
The sphere will be polarised....but net charge still will be 0....as same quantity of positive and negative charge induce on surface...i.e. their sum will be 0