Monday Homework Problem 5.4 A conductor is placed in an electric field. What can

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Monday Homework Problem 5.4 A conductor is placed in an electric field. What can be said about the electric field lines at the surface of the conductor? Select One of the Following: (a) Any field line configuration is possible at a conductor's surface. (b) No field lines can intersect a conductor's surface. (c) Field lines must be tangent to the conductor's surface. (d) Field lines must be perpendicular to the conductor's surface. (e) Field lines must make a 45° angle to the conductor's surface.

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Option(d) is correct ..

As it is the property of electric field lines that it initiates or terminates normal to the surface of conductor..

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