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Here is a cylinder on whose surfaces there is an electric field whose direction is vertically upward, but whose magnitude varies as shown. The cylinder encloses:
- no net charge.
- net negative charge.
- net positive charge.
- There is not enough information available to determine whether or not there is net charge inside the cylinder.
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