Text-book of general physics, for the use of colleges and scientific schools (1899)
Hastings, Charles Sheldon · Boston: Ginn & company · leaf 334
pointis unchanged. If. now. A be connected by a wire to B. thelines of force within the conductor will be wiped out. but FIELD DUE TO TWO UXLIKE CHARGES. 323 the external field will remain the same, as was shown byFaradays ice-pail experiment. Therefore, a charged spheri-cal conductor exerts the… … Fig. 196. an equal negative charge at B. Near the points the equi-potential surfaces are practically spherical, but further outthey become flattened on the side toward the opposite charge.The two systems of surfaces are separated by a plane, whichis a surface of zero potential. Any one of the…
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