Asked by tomdaya

Jack touches a negatively charged plastic rod to a metal sphere. How will the negative charges spread throughout the sphere?(1 point)
Responses

They stay on the bottom.
They stay on the bottom.

They spread out unevenly.
They spread out unevenly.

They stay on the top.
They stay on the top.

They spread out evenly.

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
They spread out evenly.

Reason: excess electrons on a conducting sphere repel one another and move to the outer surface; on a symmetric sphere the charge distributes uniformly over the surface.