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JEE Advanced · Physics · 17. Electrostatics

A long, hollow conducting cylinder is kept coaxially inside another long, hollow conducting cylinder of larger radius. Both the cylinders are initially electrically neutral.

  1. A a potential difference appears between the two cylinders when a charge density is given to the inner cylinder
  2. B a potential difference appears between the two cylinders when a charge density is given to the outer cylinder
  3. C no potential difference appears between the two cylinders when a uniform line charge is kept along the axis of the cylinders
  4. D no potential difference appears between the two cylinders when same charge density is given to both the cylinders
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(A) a potential difference appears between the two cylinders when a charge density is given to the inner cylinder

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There will be an electric field between two cylinders (using Gauss theorem. This electric field will produce a potential difference.
\(\therefore\) Answer is (a).
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