Offset uniformly charged spherical shells
ID: offset-uniformly-charged-spherical-shells
Place a fixed shell of radius and charge at and a fixed shell of radius and charge at . On the positive axis their centre distances coincide. The electrostatic shell theorem makes the electric field vanish until , gives magnitude until , and gives thereafter. At each ideal charged surface the field has distinct one-sided limits. The net charge is zero but the electric dipole moment is .
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