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Electric field is negative gradient of potential.Potential along equatorial line in a dipole is zero but feild exist there.why?

Electric field is negative gradient of potential.Potential along equatorial line in a dipole is zero but feild exist there.why?

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Aziz Alam IIT Roorkee
askIITians Faculty 233 Points
7 years ago
Potentail is zero, but the change is not zero in the direction parallel to dipole so we have electric field along that direction. Potential gradient along axial is not zero and hence we have field on the equatorial line but in axial direction

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Aziz Alma
IIT Roorkee
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