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Find the locus of points where the electric field due to a dipole is (i) perpendicular to its axis , (ii) anti-parallel to the axis .
[Hint : `"tan" alpha = ("tan"theta)/(2)`]

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A st. line at `54^(@)44` ' with the axis ; a line perpendicular to the axis
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