Question

Electric field lines can never cross. What would crossed electric field lines indicate?

a field pointing in two directions
an attractive force on a charge
a nonuniform area of the field
a place where the field strength is zero

Answer 1

Crossed electric field lines would indicate a field pointing in two directions. Electric field lines represent the direction of the electric field, and if they were to cross, it would imply that at that point, the electric field would point in multiple directions simultaneously, which is not physically possible. Therefore, the correct answer is:

**a field pointing in two directions**.