How to draw electric field around neutral object, dipole, and charged object

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To sketch electric field lines around a neutral grounded object, a negatively charged object, and a dipole, it's essential to recognize that the neutral object will become polarized due to the influence of the nearby charged object. The negatively charged object will attract field lines towards itself, while the dipole will have lines extending from its positive side towards the negative side. The neutral object will have field lines ending on it, indicating that it is acting like a grounding plane. There will be no direct lines from the dipole to the neutral object, but the polarization effect will influence the field distribution. Understanding these interactions is crucial for accurately representing the electric field in the sketch.
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Homework Statement


I'm working on a homework problem which requires me to roughly sketch electric field lines. The object on the left is neutral and grounded, the object on the right was just struck by lightning (and therefore very negatively charged) and I assume that the neutral object in the middle should now be polarized with + to the right and - to the left.

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I know that the negatively charged object will have lots of lines pointing towards it (including a few from the positive half of the dipole), and I assume that the dipole should be drawn with a line or two going from its positive side towards it's negative side, but I am unsure what happens around the neutral object on the left. Should there be any lines from the dipole to (or from) the neutral object? Or from the negative object on the right? Each of the objects are conductors, if that makes a difference.
 
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The neutral object is likea grounding plane. this means that the field lines will end on it.
 
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