2. Electric Potential and Capacitance
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Six point charges are placed at the vertices of a regular hexagon of side $a$ as shown. If $E$ represents electric field and $V$ represents electric potential at $O$, then

A

$E=0$ but $V \neq 0$

B

$E \neq 0$ but $V=0$

C

$E=0$ and $V=0$

D

$E \neq 0$ and $V \neq 0$

Solution

(c)

$V=\frac{3 k q}{r}-\frac{3 k q}{r}=0$

from the figure

Standard 12
Physics

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