USE GAUSS'S LAW The characteristic of conductive bodies, in electrostatics, is that the charges are distributed on thesurface as seen in the figure. Consider that the charge on the surface is InC and that the conductingsphere has radius R = 10cm. What is the net charge on the conducting sphere at r= 5cm? (The answeris a number).+,Sphere of radius R = 10cmThe sphere on the dotted line has radius r= 5 cm.

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The characteristic of conductive bodies, in electrostatics, is that the charges are distributed on the surface as seen in the figure. Consider that the charge on the surface is 1nc and that the conducting sphere has radius R = 10cm. What is the net charge on the conducting sphere at r= 5cm? (The answer is a number). -R> Sphere of radius R = 10cm The sphere on the dotted line has radius r= 5 cm.

The characteristic of conductive bodies, in electrostatics, is that the charges are distributed on the surface as seen in the figure. Consider that the charge on the surface is 1nc and that the conducting sphere has radius R = 10cm. What is the net charge on the conducting sphere at r= 5cm? (The answer is a number). -R> Sphere of radius R = 10cm The sphere on the dotted line has radius r= 5 cm.

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