Is the electrostatic force between a point charge and a neutral metallic object always attractive?
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We give an example of a geometry in which the electrostatic force between a point charge and a neutral metallic object is repulsive. The example consists of a point charge centered above a thin metallic hemisphere, positioned concave up. We show that this geometry has a repulsive regime using both a simple analytical argument and an exact calculation for an analogous two-dimensional geometry. Analogues of this geometry-induced repulsion appear in many other contexts, including Casimir systems. VC 2011 American Association of Physics Teachers. [DOI: 10.1119/1.3595554]
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