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At the vertices of an equilateral triangle with a side 20 cm there are three
electrical charges, two of them + 0.1μC and the other +0.2 μC. Calculate: a) The electric potential at the geometric center of the triangle. b) Potential energy of a charge of - 2 μC located at that point.
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