Define ‘electric line of force’ and give its two important properties.
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An electric field line is a path, straight or curved, such that tangent to it at any point gives the direction of electric field intensity at that point. Properties of field lines: (i) Tangent to the electric field line at any point gives the direction of electric intensity at that point. (ii) No two electric lines of force can intersect each other.
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Properties of electric field lines or electric line of force -
1- they originate from positive charge and terminate at negative charge.
2- they do not form closed loop as they do not return back.
3- they do not terminate in space.
4- electric field lines never intersect each other.
5- electric field lines are perpendicular to the surface of the charge.
6-the magnitude of charge and the number of field lines both are proportional to each other.
7- the start point of the field line is at the positive charge and end at the negative charge.
8- electric field lines or electric line of force are pictorial way of representing electric field around a configuration of charge.
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