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ELECTROSTATICS

1) Define the physical quantity whose unit is Cm. Is it vector or scalar?


2) Find the expression for electric field on axial line and equatorial line due to an electric dipole.
3) Find the expression for electric potential on axial line due to an electric dipole.
4) Two charges +9µC & +16 µC are separated by a distance of 1m. Find the position where electric field intensity
is zero.
5) Define EPS. Draw three EPSs of +2V, +4V & +6V in a uniform electric field whose intensity is increasing with
time.
6) Find the expression for capacitance of parallel plate capacitor with partially filled dielectric slab.
7) A capacitor is fully charged by a battery and then it disconnected from the supply. A dielectric slab
placed between plates of capacitor, how the following will change:-
a)Charge, b)Electric field between plates, c)potential difference d)energy of capacitor
8) State and prove Gauss’s theorem. A thin charged wire of infinite length has line charge density ‘λ’. Derive
expression for electric field at a distance ‘r’.
10) Charge q is distributed uniformly on a spherical shell of radius R. Using Gauss law derive expression
of electric field at a distance r from the centre when (i)r>R (ii) r=R (iii) r<R. Also draw the graph
between ‘E’ and ‘r’.
11) Two point charges qA =+ 3μC and qB = – 3μC are located 20 cm apart in vacuum. (a) What is
the electric field at the midpoint O of the line AB joining the two charges? (b) If a negative test
charge of magnitude 1.5×10–9 C is placed at this point, what is the force experienced by the test
charge?
12) A system has two charges qA = 2.5 × 10–7 C and qB = – 2.5 × 10–7 C located at points A =
(0,0,–15cm) and B=(0,0,+15 cm) respectively. What are the total charge and electric dipole
moment of the system?
13) Three identical capacitors each of capacitance 3uF are connected, in turn in series and in parallel
combination to the common source of V volts. Find the ratio of the energies stored in the two
combinations.
14) Draw 3 equipotential surfaces corresponding to a field that uniformly increases in magnitude but
remains constant along Z-direction. How are these surfaces different from that of a constant electric field
along Z direction?
15) Two parallel plate capacitors X and Y have the same area of plates and same separation between them
are in series and both connected with a battery 15V. X has air between the plates while Y contains a
dielectric medium K = 4.
(i) Calculate the capacitance of each capacitor if equivalent capacitance of the combination is 4 µF.
(ii) Calculate the potential difference between the plates of X and Y.
(iii) Estimate the ratio of electrostatic energy stored in X and Y.
16) Consider two hollow concentric spheres, S1 & S2, enclosing charges 2Q & 4Q respectively as shown.
(i) Find out the ratio of the electric flux through them. (ii) how will the electric flux through the sphere S1
change, if a medium of dielectric constant ϵr is introduced in the space inside S1 in place of air ?
17) Given a uniform electric field 𝐸 = 6 × 103 𝑖̂ 𝑁/𝐶, Find the flux of this field through a square of 10 cm
on a side whose plane is parallel to Y-Z plane. What would be the flux through the same square if the plane
makes a 300 angle with the x- axis?
18) A point charge + 10 μC is at a distance 5 cm directly above the the centre of a square of side 10 cm as
shown in figure. What is the magnitude of the electric flux through the square?

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