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Answer : 3. "Force and torque both"
What does an electric dipole experience when it is kept in the non-uniform electric field?
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What does an electric dipole experience when it is kept in the non-uniform electric field?
- 1Only a forcefalse
- 2Only torquefalse
- 3Force and torque bothtrue
- 4Neither force nor torquefalse
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Answer : 3. "Force and torque both"
Explanation :
An electric dipole always experiences a torque when placed in uniform as well as non-uniform electric field. But in non-uniform electric field, dipole will also experience net force of attraction. So the electric dipole in non-uniform electric field experiences both torque and force.