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Electric Field at a Conductor Surface
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Why is the electric field perpendicular to the surface of a conductor in electrostatic equilibrium?

A

Charges move to cancel parallel fields

B

Electric fields are always radial

C

Surface charges repel each other

D

Conductors have no electric fields

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