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How to Visualize Electric Fields

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Electric lines of force about a positive point charge are:

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radially outwards

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circular clockwise

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radially inwards

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parallel straight lines

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circular anti-clockwise

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Solution

The correct option is A radially outwards
Electric lines of force about a positive point charge are always radially outwards.

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