Monday 23 July 2018

electrostatics - When two charged conductors touch, is the charge equally distributed?


I understand that if two charged bodies of the same size touch, they will each become equally charged.


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What I am unsure about, is if these bodies are of different sizes (e.g. one is 10x the size of the other), will the charges equally distribute, but then overall the charge on the larger object will be bigger than the charge on the smaller object?


I have been trying to google an answer to this, but I am not having much luck. Perhaps I just have the wrong keywords and someone can point me in the right direction?



Thank you kindly




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