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Grade 12th passElectrostatics

In a charge-free region, electric field lines can be taken to be continuous curves without any breaks....
What doest it mean?

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8 Years agoGrade 12th pass
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Profile image of Arun
8 Years ago
 

The idea is that electric field lines can start on positive charges and finish on negative charges.
In such a case electric field lines would be discontinuous.

With no charges present the electric field lines must be continuous.

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