Question 32: NCERT Class 12th Physics: Chapter 1 – Electric Charges And Fields
(a) Consider an arbitrary electrostatic field configuration. A small test charge is placed at a null point (i.e., where E = o) of the configuration. Show that the equilibrium of the test charge is necessarily unstable, (b) Verify this result for the simple configuration of two charges of the same magnitude and sign placed at certain distance apart.