an electric dipole placed parallel to infinitely long linear charged body will experience a) both force and torque b) only force c) only torque d) neither force nor torque please explain Share with your friends Share 0 Sanjay Singh answered this Dear student It will not experience a force but a torque will act on it 1)Electric field of a long line charge is E=λ2π∈rboth the negative and the positive charge of the dipole are lying at same distance from the linearly charged wire so force on positive charge is radiallyoutwards and on negative charge radially inwards due to a positively charged wire and of equal magnitude ofF=λ2π∈r×q2) torque on the dipole as the forces are equal in magnitude and opposite in direction so they constitute a couple.Regards 2 View Full Answer
