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Equipotential Surfaces

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state an example having a region zeo electric field but non zero electric potential?

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Consider a hollow spherical conductor of radius ‘r’ and having charge ‘q’. The electric field within the conductor is zero. But the electric potential inside the hollow conductor is constant and is equal to kq/r.

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