Question

After one bee left a flower with a positive charge, that bee flew away and another bee with the same amount of positive charge flew close to the plant. Which diagram in Fig. P21.100 best represents the electric field lines between the bee and the flower?

Short answer

Option (c) diagram best represents the electric field lines between the bee and the flower.

Step-by-step solution

Coulomb’s law

Coulomb’s law state that unlike charges attract each other whereas like charges repels each other, i.e., two positive charges would repel each other while a positive and a negative charge would attract each other.

Both the bodies are positively charged

Since, both the bees and the flowers are positively charged, therefore the electric field lines will move outwards from both the objects. Since like charges repels each other hence the option (c ) is the correct answer.