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Electric Flux & Gauss's Law

Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason $\mathbf{R}$

Assertion A: In electrostatics, a conductor does not store any net charge inside. Reason R: Inside the capacitor (with no dielectric medium), the free charge carriers, if placed between the plates of capacitor, experience force and drift.

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Answer: (b)

A is true: in electrostatics any net charge of a conductor resides on its surface, so $E = 0$ inside.
R is true: between capacitor plates $E \neq 0$ , so free charge carriers placed there feel a force $q\vec E$ and drift.
R is about a capacitor gap, not the inside of a conductor, so it does not explain A.
So the answer is (b).

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