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Two unlike electric charges placed near each other:

Answer: attract each other.

  • A attract each other
  • B repel each other
  • C do nothing at all
  • D cancel to nothing

Correct answer: A. attract each other

Explanation: A positive and a negative charge attract each other.

Field Lines: Single Charge vs Electric Dipole+isolated +charge: lines radiate outward, all directions+dipole: lines curve from + to − (denser between them)

Field lines always point from positive to negative charge, are denser where the field is stronger, and never cross; an isolated positive charge has lines radiating symmetrically outward, while a dipole's lines curve from the positive to the negative charge.

Concept context

Coulomb's law, electric field, potential, capacitors, Gauss's law.

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