What is an electric dipole
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Kritika Trehan 7 years, 11 months ago
An electric dipole is two charged objects, with equal but opposite electric charges, that are separated by a distance. The electric field caused by a dipole falls off as the cube (third power) of the distance from the dipole, and has a directional variation that depends on whether you’re moving along the line separating the two charges or perpendicular to it. A dipole can be created, for example, when you place a neutral atom in an electric field, because the positively-charged constituents of the atom will be pulled one way, and the negatively-charged constituents the other way, creating a separation of charge in the direction of the field.
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