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A charge Q is placed at the centre of an uncharged, hollow metallic sphere of radius alpha. (a) Find the surface charge density on the inner surface and on the outer surface. (b) If a charge q is put on the sphere, what would be the surface charge densities on the inner and the outer surface?

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