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Chapter 22, Problem 6DQ

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Problem 6DQ

You find a sealed box on your doorstep. You suspect that the box contains several charged metal spheres packed in insulating material. How can you determine the total net charge inside the box without opening the box? Or isn’t this possible?

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QUESTION:

Problem 6DQ

You find a sealed box on your doorstep. You suspect that the box contains several charged metal spheres packed in insulating material. How can you determine the total net charge inside the box without opening the box? Or isn’t this possible?

ANSWER:

Solution 6DQ

Step 1

The expression for Gauss’s law is,

Here,  is the electric flux of the field, q is the charge, and  is the free space permittivity.

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