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A hollow charged conductor has a tiny hole cut into its surface. Show that the electric field in the holes is `(sigma//2 in_(0)` `hat(n)`, where `hat(n)` is the unit vector in the outward normal direction, and `sigma` is the surface charge density near ther hole.

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