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Can you prove that the interior of a conductor can have no excess charge in the static condition

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Considering a gaussian surface just inside the surface of the conductor, the net electric field inside the gaussian surface is zero ( electric field inside a conductor is zero)

.Tthus according to the Gauss' theorem the enclosed charge should be zero


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