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Grade 12Electrostatics

Compare the electric field due to point charge to the electric field due to a dipole explain with resons

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7 Years agoGrade 12
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Profile image of Eshan
7 Years ago
Dear student,

The electric field due to an electric dipole varies different from that due to a point charge in the sense that that due to point charge it varies as1/r^2, and for electric dipole it varies as1/r^3for large distances from the dipole.