The work which is required to be done to make an arrangement of four particles each having a charge $+q$ such that the particles lie at the four corners of a square of side $a$ is .......
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$U=\frac{4 k q^2}{a}+\frac{2 k q^2}{a \sqrt{2}}$

$W=U$

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