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Here is a special parallelogram with adajacent side length `2a` and `a` and the one of the possible angles between them as `60^(@)` .Two charges are to be kept across a diagonal only. The ratio of the minimum potential energyy of the system to the maximum potential energy is

A

`sqrt3 : sqrt7`

B

`3 : 7`

C

`1 : 2`

D

`1 : 4`

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A
long and short diagonal lengths are `sqrt(p^(2) + q^(2) +- 2pq cos theta)`
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