Why electric field is perpendicular to the surface of the conductor ?
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The field is perpendicular to the surface, because otherwise it would exert a force parallel to the surface and produce charge motion.
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Because the surface of a conductor is
necessarily a surface of constant potential, the
electric field, which is −∇φ, must be
perpendicular to the surface at every point on
the surface.
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