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OpenStudy (anonymous):

What are the strength and direction of the electric field at the position indicated by the dot in the figure (Figure 1) ? I have the Electric field but how do you find direction???

OpenStudy (anonymous):

ganeshie8 (ganeshie8):

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OpenStudy (anonymous):

A little trig and pythagorean theorem will clean this right up.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Do you have the vector components of each field?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

If you want to put the direction in terms of an angle above horizontal, say, then take inverse tangent of (vertical component / horizontal component).

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