Three point charges are fixed to the corners of a square, one to a corner, in such a way that the net electric field at the empty corner is zero. Do these charges all have (a) the same sign and (b) the same magnitude (but, possibly, different signs)? Which of the following are true?
1. Since the field at the empty corner due to the charge placed at the diagonally opposite corner will have equal x and y components, the charges placed at the other two corners must have the same magnitude.
2. It is certainly possible for all three occupied corners of the square to have charges with the same magnitude and still produce a zero electric field at the un-occupied corner of the square.
3. It is impossible to have any arrangement of charges, with any combination of sign and magnitude, at 3 of the 4 corners of a square such that the electric field at the un-occupied corner iszero.
4. The charge placed at the diagonally opposite corner to the empty corner must have a charge opposite in sign to the identical charges placed at the other occupied corners; and have a charge whose magnitude is larger than that of the other two charges.
5. The charges placed at the two corners along the edge of the square away from the empty must have the same sign. In that way the net field at the empty cornerdue to the two charges alone will lie along the diagonal of the square.
6. It is certainly possible for all three charges at the occupied corners of the square to have the same sign and still produce zero field at the un-occupied corner of the square.
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