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Draw the equipotential surfaces due to an electric dipole. Locate the points where the potential due to the dipole is zero.

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Fig. shows some equipotential surfaces of a dipole.

All the points on the equatorial plane of a dipole, being equidistant from +q and -q, have zero potential.
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