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At the surface of a perfect conductor the tangential electric field is

  • A.equal to the surface charge density over the permittivity
  • B.equal to the surface current density
  • C.continuous but not necessarily zero
  • D.zero

Answer: D

A finite tangential field would drive an infinite current in a perfect conductor, so it must vanish, and continuity then makes it vanish just outside as well. This condition is what fixes the modes of a waveguide and the currents on an antenna.

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