Consider a thin spherical shell of radius R with centre at the origin, carrying uniform positive surface charge density. The variation of the magnitude of the electric field | E (r)| and the electric potential V(r) with the distance r from

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Consider a thin spherical shell of radius R with centre at the origin, carrying uniform positive surface charge density. The variation of the magnitude of the electric field | E (r)| and the electric potential V(r) with the distance r from the centre, is best represented by which graph?

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For a thin uniformly positive charged spherical shell (i) Inside the shell at any point E=O and V= 1 4 ₀ q R = constt. where q= charge on sphere R= Radius of sphere (ii) Outside the shell at any point at any distance r from the centre E 1 r² and V 1 r

Consider a thin spherical shell of radius R with centre at the origin, carrying uniform positive surface charge density. The variation of the magnitude of the electric field | E (r)| and the electric potential V(r) with the distance r from the centre, is best represented by which graph?

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