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Grade 12Electrostatics

Three identical charges each of 1 C are kept on the circumference of a circle of radius 1 metre forming equilateral triangle. The electric field intensity at the center of the circle in N/C is

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8 Years agoGrade 12
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8 Years ago
Because of symmetry the field by the charges q placed at every corner of equilateral triangle gets canceled out and we get net electric field at the centre zero