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Your classmate in physics says that the electric field at the center of a dipole composed of equal magnitude charges is zero and thus so must the voltage be zero at that point. Is your classmate correct? Justify your answer.
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We are given a electric dipole and point of the interest is the center of the dipole between the two equal charges.
electric field is a vector quantity and potential is a scalar quantity.
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