A Faraday cage shields its interior from external electric fields because:

  1. charges on the cage rearrange to produce a field that cancels the external field inside
  2. it is magnetic
  3. it absorbs all light
  4. it is made of rubber
Answer

A) charges on the cage rearrange to produce a field that cancels the external field inside

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