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Can we create an electric field in which all the lines of force are parallel but their density increases continusously in a direction per-pendicular to the lines of force, fig.
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No, this is because work done in moving a unit positive charge along the closed path ABCD would no longer be zero, being more along AB, zero along BC and DA, Fig. this work done has to be zero, because electrostatic forces are conservative forces.
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