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Potential Energy of a Dipole in Uniform Electric Field

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64.A short electric dipole of dipole moment p kept in plane of a wire of linear charge density lambda as shown. The dipole makes angle 60 with local electric field. If distance of dipole from the wire is R, then force experianced by dipole is

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