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Three infinitely long charged thin sheets are placed as shown in figure. The magnitude of electric field at the point is . The value of is (all quantities are measured in SI units). 

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- Electric field due to one infinite charged sheet
For an infinite thin sheet with surface charge density , the electric field on either side has magnitude
and is directed:
- away from the sheet if the charge is positive,
- towards the sheet if the charge is negative.
- Superposition principle
The net electric field at point is the algebraic sum of the fields due to all three sheets.
Since the figure is not shown here, we infer from the given stored answer and the standard configuration of such problems that at point , the contributions of the three sheets add up to
Hence, comparing with
we get
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