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OpenStudy (anonymous):

Why is that electric field lines inside a non-conducting sphere with charge uniformly distributed over its volume are radially outward? Why can't the electric field lines be in random directions? I don't understand how by symmetry the field lines will be radially outward

OpenStudy (anonymous):

spherical symmetry.. !

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