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Consider two charges +q and -q placed at B and C of an equilateral triangle ABC. For this system, the total charge is zero. But the electric field (intensity) at A which is equidistant from B and C is not zero. Why?

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Charges are scalars, but the electrical intensities are vectors and add vectorially.
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