Timeline for Electric field due a charge in the cavity of a conductor
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| 7 hours ago | answer | added | freecharly | timeline score: 1 | |
| 10 hours ago | history | became hot network question | |||
| 14 hours ago | answer | added | Farcher | timeline score: 4 | |
| 15 hours ago | comment | added | kangermu | I think the key is precise language. If you see “If we put a charge q inside a spherical cavity…” then it is not clear whether they mean “we put it there and let go” or “we put it there and hold it there”. You are imagining the former, which is quite reasonable. But most textbooks mean the latter. The textbook authors will tend not to realize the ambiguity because they have spent a lifetime studying and teaching the latter problem so they longer have the perspective of a new student. You might hope this would be caught by good editors or proofreaders. But textbooks are just mostly garbage. | |
| 15 hours ago | answer | added | KB10 | timeline score: 1 | |
| 18 hours ago | history | asked | human | CC BY-SA 4.0 |