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Consider a solid cube made up of insulating material having a uniform volume charge density. Assuming the electrostatic potential to be zero at infinity, the ratio of the potential at a corner of the cube to that at the centre will be

A

2

B

`sqrt3//2`

C

`sqrt2`

D

1

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A
`(krho(a^3)//a)/(1/8Krho(2a)^3//2a)=2`
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