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All right, so we have two charges placed a distance, we'll call this one q, this one capital q, a distance of 2d away from each other.
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And we're told that the electric field at a point p is purely vertical.
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And so we want to know there are three questions, a, b and c.
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So part a asks, what is the sign of q, capital q? and we can tell if we have an electric field pointing upwards and we're told little q is positive.
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The way.
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Then we know like the electric field lines come like out of a positive charge and they move into a negative charge.
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So this requires q to be, sorry, negative.
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I meant to write less than zero, not greater than zero.
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There we go.
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So it's going to be negative.
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And then what about the magnitude? well, the electric field at point p is going to be the sum of the fields from a little q and big q.
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So this would be like k times big q over the distance to point p...