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Shows the electric field lines around three point charges A,B and C.
(a) Which charges are positive ?
(b) Which charge has the largest magnitude? Why?
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(a) Charges A and C are positive but charges B is negative.
(b) The charges C has largest magnitude because maximum number of electric field lines are originating from it.
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