Assignment for Summer Vacations

Classes: XIIA, XIIB & XIIC

1. How much work is done in moving a charge of 400 c between two points on an equipotential surface?
2. Is electrostatic potential necessarily Zero at point where electric field strength is zero. Illustrate your answer.
3. If a charge +Q is revolved round another charge +q in a circle of radius ‘r’, how much work is done?
4. Force between two points charges kept at a distance r apart in air is F. If these charges are kept at the same distance in
water, how does the force between them change?
5. If Coulomb’s law involved 1/r3 dependence, would Gauss law still hold?
6. A point charge of 8.86 C is placed at the center of a cube of side 10 cm. Calculate the flux passing through its one face.
7. Name the physical quantity whose S.I unit is (i) Coulomb/volt (ii) Joule/Coulomb
8. Give two properties of electric lines of force. Sketch them for a positively charged metal sphere.
9. Calculate the Coulomb force between a proton and an electron separated by 0.8 Fermi.
10. On what factors does the capacitance of a parallel plate capacitor depends? Give the
formula used.
11. A charge of 15 C is given to a hollow metallic sphere of radius 0.1m. Find the potential at the surface of sphere (ii) the center of
the sphere.
12. Three capacitors of equal capacitance, when connected in series, have a net capacitance of C 1 and when connected in
parallel have a capacitance of C2.What will be the value of C1/C2?
13. Two point charge +e and +4eC are separated by a distance of 6r. Find the point on the line joining the two charges
when the electric field is zero.
14. What is the net force on an electric dipole in a uniform electric field? How much work is done in deflecting an electric
dipole of dipole moment ‘p’ in a uniform electric field ‘E’ through 180 0 from the stable equilibrium position?
15. Two point charges 3 x 10–8 C and –2 X 10–8 C are located 15 cm apart in air. Find at what point on the line joining these
charges the electric potential is zero. Take potential at infinity to be zero.
16. If dielectric strength of air is 3 MV/m, can a metal sphere of radius 1 cm hold a charge of 1 coulomb?
17. Charges of +0.01 C and –0.01C are placed at the vertices A and B respectively of an equilateral triangle ABC of side
0.3m.Calculate the field intensity at C.
18. Define Electric field. The electric field at a point due to a point charge is 10 N/C and the electric potential at a that point
is 5 J/C. Calculate the distance of the point from the charge and magnitude of the charge.
19. Two point charges A and B of value + 15c and + 9c are kept 18 cm apart in air. Calculate the work done when charge B is
moved by 3cm towards A?
20. A pendulum bob of mass 80 milligram and carrying a charge of 2x10 -8C is at rest in a horizontal uniform electric field of
2x104 V/m. Find the tension in the thread of the pendulum and the angle it makes with the vertical?
21. Two charges of +25x10-9 C and –25x10-9 C are placed 6m apart. Find the electric field at a point 4m from the center of the
electric dipole

i) On axial line ii) On equatorial line.

22. A dipole consists of two charges +3.2x10-19 C and –3.2x10-19 C, separated by a distance of 2.4x10-10m. It is placed in a
uniform electric field of 4.0x105 V/m. Find:
I)Electric dipole moment of the dipole.

ii)The maximum torque exerted on the dipole by the electric field.

iii)The potential energy of the dipole in the equilibrium position and
iv)The work necessary to rotate the dipole by 180 0 from the equilibrium position.
23. Show that energy stored per unit volume in a capacitor is given by, U= ½ 0E2.
24. Bends in a rubber pipe reduce the flow of water through it. How would the bends in a wire affect electrical resistance.
25. What is signifance of Kirchoff’s law.
26. With two resistance wires in the two gaps of a meter bridge, the balance point was found to be 1/3 m from the zero
end. When a 6 coil is connected in series with the smaller of the two resistances, the point is shifted to 2/3 m from
the same end. Find the resistance of the two wires.
27. A charge 10 µC is placed at a distance 5 cm above the centre of a horizontal square surface of edge a. Find the flux of
the electric field through the square surface.
28. A sensitive instrument is to be protected from the electrostatic field of environment. Suggest a possible way.
29. Calculate the magnitude of the electric field which can just suspend a deuteron of mass 3.2 X 10 -27 kg freely in air.
30. a)Two large thin metal plates are parallel and close to each other. On their inner faces, the plates have surface charge
densities of opposite sighns and of magnitude 17 X 10-22 C/m2. What is E
i)In outer region of first plate,
ii)In the second region of second plate
iii)Between the plates.
b)Two charge 3 µC and -3 µC are located 20 cm apart in vacuum.What is the electric field at the mid point of the line
joining the two charges?If the negative test charge of magnitude 1.5 X 10-9 C is placed at this point, what is the force
experienced by the charge?
31. List any two differences between electric field intensities due to electric dipole and that due to a single point charge.
32. What do you mean by an area vector?
33. An infinite line charge produces a field of 9 X 10 4N/C at a distance of 4 cm. Calculate the linear charge density.
Ans.: 2 X 10-7Cm-1
34. Which is bigger: 1C of charge or a charge on an electron? How many elementary charges form one coulomb of charge?
Ans.: 1coulomb, 6.25X1018 elementary particles.
35. Calculate the force of attraction between a proton and an electron separated by a distance of 8 X 10 -14m.
i. Ans.: - 3.6N.
36. The force between two electrons when placed in air is equal to 0.5 times the weight of electron.Find the distance
between two electrons. Ans.: 7.19m.
37. Two charges of +Q units are placed along a line. A third charge q is placed between them. At what position and for
what value of q, will the system be in equilibrium? Ans: mid way. q=-Q/4 .
38. An electric dipole consisting of a pair of equal and opposite charges of has a dipole moment equal to 5 X 10 -7Cm. Find
the length of dipole. The dipole is placed in an external electric field of 5 X 10 5 NC-1. What max. torque the field will
exert on the dipole? Ans: 32 X 10-5Nm.
39. If 1C of charge is placed in the centre of a cube of side 10cm, calculate the flux coming out of any face of cube.
Ans:1.88 X 1010 Nm2C-1.on
40. A hexagon of side 0.1 m has a charge of 10µC at each of vertices. Calculate the electric potential at the centre of the
hexagon. Ans.:5.4 X 106V.

41. Find the electric potential of at the centre of square of side 1 m at four corners of which , charge of q 1=3 x 10-8C,
q2= - 3 x 10-8C, q3= -5 x 10-8C & q4=6 x 10-8C are placed. Ans: 126.9V.
42. Two concentric metallic spherical shells of radius R and 3R are given charges Q 1 and Q2 respectively. The surface charge
densities on the outer surfaces of the shell are equal. Determine the ratio of Q 1 : Q2. Ans: 1:8
43. Repulsion is the surest test of electrification. Why?
44. Two point charges of 10 X 10-8 and -2 X 10-8 are separated by a distance of 6 cm in air.
Find at what distance from the first charge would the electric potential be zero.
Also calculate the of electrostatic P.E.of the system. Ans:5cm & -18 X 10 -4J.

45. A parallel plate capacitor is to be designed with votage rating of 1 kV using a material of dielectric constant 3 and
dielectric strength about 107 Vm-1. For safety we like the field never to exceed 10 % of dielectric strength. What
minimum area of plate is required to have a capacitance of 50µF? Ans: 19 cm 2.
46. 75% of distance d between the parallel plates of a capacitor is filled with material of dielectric constant k. Find the
change in the capacitance if the original capacitance was C 0. Ans: 4kC0/k+3.

47. Keeping the voltage of charging source constant what would be the percentage change in the energy stored in the
parallel plate capacitor if the separation between its plates were to be increased by 10%?
Ans: 11.1%.
48. Net capacitance of three identical capacitors in series is 3 µF. What will be their capacitance if connected in parallel?
Find the ratio of energy stored in two configurations if they are connected to the same source.
Ans: 27 µF & 1:1.
49. A cube of side √3 m has a charge of 1 µC at each of its eight vertices. Find the potential and electric field at the centre of
cube. Ans.:0.
50. Write the principle , working and applications of wheat stone bridge.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS
 SUGGESTED LIST OF PROJECTS
CLASS: XII
Any one project is to be prepared during the summer vacations
1. To demonstrate the working of a simple AC generator.
2. To demonstrate the phenomenon of total internal reflection.
3. To demonstrate formation and working of a transformer.
4. To demonstrate the phenomenon of interference of light.
5. To demonstrate the phenomenon of diffraction of light.
6. To demonstrate the effect of intensity of light on LDR.
7.To demonstrate the working of logic gates using torch bulb, battery and switches.
8. To demonstrate the universal nature of NAND/NOR gate.
9. To prepare a half wave rectifier.
10. To prepare a full wave rectifier.
11. To investigate the dependence of angle of deviation on angle of incidence using a hollow prism
filled, one by one,with different transparent fluids.
12. To investigate the the relation between the ratio of (i) output and input voltage (ii) no of turns in
secondary coil and primary coil of a self designed transformer.
13. To set up a common base transistor circuit and to study its input and output characteristics and to
calculate its current gain.
14. To design a half wave rectifier.
15. To design a full wave rectifier.
16. To design a rain alarm.
17. To deign a fire alarm.
18. To design an earthquake detector.

Any other related to the syllabus of class XII can also be accepted.