Quote: because Coulomb's force law is exactly the inverse square, a thin spherical shell of charge is like a point charge outside the shell and zero inside the shell

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[For a thin spherical shell of charge] the field outside the shell is like … [p. 5-5] If [Coulomb's] force law were not exactly … would be exactly zero. … [p. 5-6] [Plimpton and Laughton 1936] found that Coulomb's exponent differs from …   Google-1   Google-2

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