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JEE Advanced · Physics · 17. Electrostatics

Consider a neutral conducting sphere. A positive point charge is placed outside the sphere. The net charge on the sphere is then

  1. A negative and distributed uniformly over the surface of the sphere
  2. B negative and appears only at the point on the sphere closest to the point charge
  3. C negative and distributed non-uniformly over the entire surface of the sphere
  4. D zero
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(D) zero

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Charge will be induced in the conducting sphere, but net charge on it will be zero.
\(\therefore \text {Option (d) is correct.}\)
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