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Equipotential Surfaces

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Depict the equipotential surfaces for a sytem of two identical positive point charges placed a distance 'd' apart.

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Equipotential surfaces due to two identical charges is shown in figure.

For two same charges the charges will repeal each other at a distance 'd' forming equipotencial surfaces.

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