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A charge $+\mathrm{q}$ is placed somewhere inside the cavity of a thick conducting spherical shell of inner radius $\mathrm{R}_{1}$ and outer radius $\mathrm{R}_{2}$. A charge $-\mathrm{Q}$ is placed at a distance $\mathrm{r}>\mathrm{R}_{2}$ from the centre of the shell. Then the electric field in the hollow cavity-
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is only that due to $+\mathrm{q}$.

For a conductor electric field inside its cavity is only due to inside charge and not due to outside charge.
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