Conductors and Capacitors

Positive charges flow from the conductor to the ground.

Negative charges flow from the ground to the conductor.

No charge flow occurs.

The potential of the conductor increases.

Positive

Negative

Neutral

It depends on the shape of the conductor.

Positive charge is uniformly distributed on the sphere.

Negative charge is uniformly distributed on the sphere.

Negative charge accumulates on the side of the sphere closest to +q.

Positive charge accumulates on the side of the sphere closest to +q.

Infinite

Equal to the potential of the Earth's core

Zero

Dependent on the charge of the conductor

The charge distribution remains unchanged.

Charge redistributes until all capacitors have the same charge.

Charge redistributes until the point connected to ground has zero potential.

All charges in the circuit flow to ground.

The induced charge is uniformly distributed across the conductor's surface.

The induced charge density is highest where the external electric field is weakest.

The induced charge density is highest where the external electric field is strongest.

No charge is induced on the conductor.

Charge is evenly distributed across all surfaces.

Regions with higher curvature tend to have a lower charge density.

The electric potential is the same on all conductor surfaces.

Each conductor carries the same amount of net charge.

Charge

Electric Field

Electric Potential

Capacitance

The electric field at the surface of each sphere is the same.

The charge density on each sphere is the same.

The potential of each sphere is the same.

The capacitance of each sphere is the same.