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Sketch the electric field lines in the vicinity of the conductor in the figure given the field was originally uniform and parallel to the object’s long axis. Is the resulting field small near the long side of the object?

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Electric field lines are representing the strength of the field. When a positive test charge placed in the electric field the tangent drawn gives the direction of its movement and density of line at the charge particle gives the magnitude of the field.

 

 

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