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Re: Surface charge distribution

At 7:28 PM -0500 12/3/02, Fakhruddin, Hasanbhai wrote:

A conducting shell is initially neutral. A point charge +q is placed
OFF CENTER inside the cavity. Is the charge induced on its outer
surface symmetric or asymmetric?

This certainly a physics AP-C level question!

Is the conducting shell specified as being SPHERICAL ?!?!?!?!?!

If yes - then yes, since the shell is conducting, - the E field is
uniform around it and Gauss's Law tells us that the charge
distribution is symmetric.