m units of electricity, at dis-tances /, /, / from C the centre of asphere insulated and charged with aquantity Q of electricity. The actualdistribution of electricity on the spheri-cal surface must be such that the forcedue to it at any internal point shallbe equal and opposite to the force due to… … 78 On the Mathematical Theory of Electricity. ■ [v. XATrawould (§ 90) be the same as that due to a quantity a_ a concentrated at the point M; and therefore if we take 47rathe force at internal points due to this distribution would beequal and opposite to the force due to the actual electricityof M.…
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