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An electric dipole is placed in uniform electric field in an unstable equilibrium position. Now the dipole is rotated in this field. The graph which best represents variation of its potential energy is given by,

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Three charges of +2q, -q and -q are placed at the corners A, B and C of an equilateral triangle of side a, as shown in the adjoining figure. Then the dipole moment of this combination is

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An electric dipole is placed along the x-axis at the origin O. A point P is at a distance of 20 cm from this origin such that OP makes an angle π3 with the x-axis. If the electric field at P makes an angle β with x-axis, then the value of β would be
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Two electric dipoles of moment P and 64 P are placed in opposite direction on a line at a distance of 25 cm. The electric field will be zero at point between the dipoles whose distance from the dipole of moment P is
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If identical charges -q are placed at each corner of a cube of side b, then electric potential energy of charge +q which is placed at the centre of the cube will be
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A dipole of dipole moment p=(2i^-3j^+4k^) cm is kept at a point A whose coordinates are (1,-1,3). If an external electric field E=(5i^+2j^-3k^) V m-1 is applied then the potential energy of the dipole be,

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An electric dipole is placed in a uniform electric field E of magnitude 40 N C-1. The graph below shows the magnitude of the torque on the dipole versus the angle θ between the field E and the dipole moment p. The magnitude of dipole moment p is equal to

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An electric dipole consists of two opposite charges each of magnitude 1.0 μC, separated by a distance 2.0 cm.  The dipole is placed in an external electric field of 1.0 × 105 N C-1. The maximum torque on the dipole is
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At a point on the axis (but not inside the dipole and not at infinity) of an electric dipole