A spherical charged conductor has surface charge density $\sigma $ . The electric field on its surface is $E$ and electric potential of conductor is $V$ . Now the radius of the sphere is halved keeping the charge to be constant. The new values of electric field and potential would be
  • A$2E,\, 2V$
  • B$4E,\, 2V$
  • C$4E,\, 4V$
  • D$2E,\,4V$
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