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Potential energy of a particle in a force field is given by 
, where 
and 
are positive constants and 
is the distance of particle from centre of the field. For stable equilibrium, the distance of particle is
A
B
C
D
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As, 
For equilibrium, 
For stable equilibrium, 
The distance at which both the particles will be in stable equilibrium is 
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