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A hollow insulated conducting sphere is given a positive charge of . What will be the electric field at the centre of the sphere? The radius of the sphere is .
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Charge resides on the outer surface of a conducting hollow sphere of radius . We consider a spherical surface of radius .
By Gauss theorem

charge enclosed
i.e. electric field inside a hollow sphere is zero.
By Gauss theorem
charge enclosed
i.e. electric field inside a hollow sphere is zero.
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