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In electric dipole is placed in an electric field of a point charge, then........

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(A) the resultant force ACTING on the dipole is always zero.
(B) the resultant force acting on the dipole may be zero.
(c) TORQUE acting on it may be zero.
(D) torque acting on it is always zero.

Solution :Here, electric FIELD `E = (kq)/r^(2)` due to a q point charge is not uniform.
`therefore`Electric field at the position of +q and - q are not equal. Hence, resultant force is never zero, so option (A) and (B) are wrong. If dipole becomes parallel to electric field `vecE`,then angle between `vecp` and `vecE` will be 0°, so the torque acting on dipole `tau = pE sin 0^(@) =0`, but if `phi ne 0^(@)`,the torque will not be zero, so option (C) is correct.


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