Timeline for If metals can’t sustain an electric field inside them (as their electrons move to cancel it out), how do they still conduct electricity? [duplicate]
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| Apr 14 at 7:09 | vote | accept | Aarav Raj | ||
| Apr 12 at 15:02 | history | closed |
David Bailey Jon Custer John Rennie |
Duplicate of Why is there an electric field in a wire even though it is a conductor? | |
| Apr 12 at 14:06 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Apr 12 at 13:52 | comment | added | David Bailey | Also relevant: "How is electric current possible if no electric field exists inside a conductor?", "Is the electric field zero inside an ideal conductor carrying a current?", "Is there no electric field inside a conductor?", "Why is current through the short circuited wire not zero?", …. | |
| Apr 12 at 8:00 | answer | added | Zaph | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 12 at 7:39 | comment | added | naturallyInconsistent | Your "If" is in the case of electroSTATICS. Conducing electricity is electroDYNAMICS. There is an electric field inside metals when they keep a constant and steady DC flow of electricity. | |
| Apr 12 at 7:28 | history | asked | Aarav Raj | CC BY-SA 4.0 |