Charges on the vertices of an equilateral triangle
Electricity and Magnetism
Level
2
Three equal positive charges of magnitude q each are placed on the vertices of an equilateral triangle of side a. At how many points inside the triangle is the net electric field due to these charges zero?
The answer is 4.
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