Summer Assignment

Electric Flux
1. State Gauss’s law in electrostatic. A cube with each side ‘a’is kept in an electric field given by
E = 3  103 x iˆ N / C , (as shown in the figure) .Take a=10 cm. Find out
(i) the electric flux through the cube, and
(ii) the net charge inside the cube.
2. A spherical conductor of radius 12cm has a charge 1.6 × 10-7 distributed uniformly on its surface. What
is the electric field: (i) inside the sphere (ii) just outside the sphere?
3. A conducting sphere of radius 10 cm has an unknown charge. If the electric field 20cm from the centre
of sphere is 1.5 × 103 NC-1 and points radially inward, what is the net charge on the sphere?
4. A point charge is placed at the centre of a closed Gaussian spherical surface of radius r. Electric flux
passing through the surface is . How is the electric flux  through the surface affected when the
following changes are made in turn:
(a) The spherical surface is replaced by a cylindrical surface of the same radius?
(b) The point charge is replaced by an electric dipole?
Justify your answer in each case.
5. A point charge causes an electric flux of -1.0 × 103 Nm2C-1 to pass through a spherical surface of 10.0
cm radius centred on the charge.
(a) If the radius of the Gaussian surface were doubled, how much flux would pass
through the surface?
(b) What is the value of the point charge?
6. A uniform charged conducting sphere of diameter 2.5m has a surface charge density 100 C/m2.
Calculate
(i) charge on the sphere and (ii) total electric flux passing through the sphere.
7. What is the net flux of uniform electric field E = 3  103 iˆ N / C through a cube of side 20cm oriented so
that its faces are parallel to the coordinate planes?
8. Consider a uniform field E = 3  103 iˆ N / C . (a) What is the flux of the electric field through a square
of 10cm on a side whose plane is parallel to the YZ plane? (b) What is the flux through the same square
if the normal to its plane makes a 600 angle with the X-axis?
9. A hollow cylindrical box of length 1m and area of cross-section
25 cm2 is placed in a three dimensional coordinate system as
shown in the figure. The electric field in the region is given
by E = 50 x iˆ , where E is in NC-1 and x is in metres. Find
(i) net flux through the cylinder. (ii) charge enclosed by the cylinder.
 ELECTRIC POTENTIAL AND CAPACITANCE

Very Short Answer Questions:

1. Figure shows the field lines on a positive charge. Is the work done by
the field in moving a small positive charge from Q to P positive or
negative ? Give reason.
2. The field lines of negative point charge are as shown in the figure. Does the kinetic energy of a small
negative charge increase or decrease in going from B to A?

3. Can electric potential at a point be zero, while the electric field is not zero?
4. Can electric field at a point be zero, while electric potential is not zero?
5. Can there be a potential difference between two adjacent conductors carrying the same charge?
6. An electron and a proton are brought nearer; how does the potential energy of system change?
7. What is the geometrical shape of equipotential surface due to a single isolated charge?
8. Why must electrostatic field at the surface of a charged conductor be normal to the surface at every
point? Give reason.
9. Depict the equipotential surfaces for a system of two identical positive point charges placed a distance
‘d’ apart.
10. Draw an equipotential surface for a system consisting of two charges Q, - Q separated by a distance r
in air. Locate the points where the potential due to the dipole is zero.
11. Why do the equipotential surfaces due to a uniform electric field not intersect each other?
12. A hollow metal sphere of radius 5cm is charged such that the potential on its surface is 10V. What is
the potential at the centre of the sphere?
13. Two protons A and B are placed between two parallel having a potential
difference V as shown in the fig. Will the protons experience equal
or unequal force?

14. A uniform electric field exists between two charged plates as shown in the figure. What should be the
work done in moving a charge q along the closed rectangular path ABCDA?

Short Answer Questions:

1. Establish the relation between electric field and potential gradient.
2. Draw a schematically equipotential corresponding to
(a) a constant electric field in Z-direction.
(b) a field that uniformly increases in magnitude but remains in a constant (say Z) direction.
3. Derive a mathematical expression for the electric potential due to a point charge.
4. Find the electrostatic potential at a point on equatorial line of an electric dipole.
5. Derive an expression for the potential energy of an electric dipole of dipole moment p in an electric
field E .
6. Why is the potential inside a hollow spherical conductor constant and has the same values on its
surface?
Application Based Questions:(Numericals)
1. Calculate the amount of work done in rotating a dipole, of dipole moment 3 × 10-8C-m, from its
position of stable equilibrium to the position of unstable equilibrium, in a uniform electric field of
intensity 104 N/C.
2. (a) A point charge q is placed at O as shown in figure . Is VP – VQ positive or negative when (i) q > 0
(ii) q < 0 ? Justify your answer.
(b) A regular hexagon of side 0.10m has a charge 5C at each of its vertices. Calculate the potential
at the centre of hexagon.

3. A test charge ‘q’ is moved without acceleration from A to C

along the path from A to B and then from B to C in electric
field E as shown in the figure. (i) Calculate the potential
difference between A and C. (ii) At which point (of the two)
is the electric potential more and why?

4. An electric dipole of length 10cm having charges 6 × 10-3C, placed at 300 with respect to a uniform
electric field, experience a torque of magnitude 6 3 Nm. Calculate (i) magnitude of electric field and
(ii) potential energy of electric dipole.
5. A small sphere of radius r1 and charge q1 is enclosed by a spherical shell of radius r2 and charges q2.
Show that if q1 is positive, charge will necessarily flow from the sphere to the shell (when the two are
connected by a wire), no matter, what the charge q2 on the shell is.
6. Four point charges are placed at the four corners of a square in the two ways (i) and (ii) as shown
below. Will the electric potential, at the centre of the square, be the same or different in the two
configurations and why?

7. Two charges 5 × 10-8C and -3×10-8 are located 16cm apart. At what point(s) on the line joining the
two charges is the electric potential zero? Take the potential at infinity to be zero.
8. Two charges 2C and -2 C are placed at points A and B 6cm apart.
(a) Identify the equipotential surface of the system.
(b) What is the direction of the electric field at every point on this surface?