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Are the field lines the same as the trajectories of a particle with initial velocity zero

Is it true that the field lines of an electric field are identical to the trajectories of a charged particle with initial velocity zero? If so, how can one prove it? The claim is from a german ...
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How can a non-conservative field be a scalar multiple of a conservative field?

Okay so I was reading this from University Physics by Freeman and Young and on the topic of inductors as circuit element, they wrote that $\mathbf{E_c} + \mathbf{E_n} = 0$ which makes no sense to me ...
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Existence Of Electric Field Lines

Can an Electric Field with field lines Like So Exist: One Of my friends said it couldn't as the field lines here are not conservative ; so it cannot exist ; Is he right? Or can it be made to ...