This document outlines 20 topics related to electric charges and fields, electrostatic potential, and capacitance that have appeared on past exams from March 2014 to September 2020. The topics include deriving expressions for electric field and potential due to various charge distributions using Coulomb's law and Gauss's law, properties of electric field lines and equipotential surfaces, dipole moment, capacitance of different capacitor configurations, and energy stored in capacitors. Many of the topics involve deriving fundamental equations of electrostatics.
This document outlines 20 topics related to electric charges and fields, electrostatic potential, and capacitance that have appeared on past exams from March 2014 to September 2020. The topics include deriving expressions for electric field and potential due to various charge distributions using Coulomb's law and Gauss's law, properties of electric field lines and equipotential surfaces, dipole moment, capacitance of different capacitor configurations, and energy stored in capacitors. Many of the topics involve deriving fundamental equations of electrostatics.
This document outlines 20 topics related to electric charges and fields, electrostatic potential, and capacitance that have appeared on past exams from March 2014 to September 2020. The topics include deriving expressions for electric field and potential due to various charge distributions using Coulomb's law and Gauss's law, properties of electric field lines and equipotential surfaces, dipole moment, capacitance of different capacitor configurations, and energy stored in capacitors. Many of the topics involve deriving fundamental equations of electrostatics.
This document outlines 20 topics related to electric charges and fields, electrostatic potential, and capacitance that have appeared on past exams from March 2014 to September 2020. The topics include deriving expressions for electric field and potential due to various charge distributions using Coulomb's law and Gauss's law, properties of electric field lines and equipotential surfaces, dipole moment, capacitance of different capacitor configurations, and energy stored in capacitors. Many of the topics involve deriving fundamental equations of electrostatics.
1.. Write the basic properties of charges. [ July 2014, March
2018, March 2019 ] 2. Write the properties of electric field lines. (June 2015, March 2016, March 2017, July 2018, June 2019, Sep 2020 ] 3. State and explain Coulomb’s law in electrostatic. Write in vector form.( March 2014, June 2015, March 2017, March 2020 ] 4. State and explain Gauss ‘s law in electrostatic [ March 2014, June 2015, June 2017 ] 5. Derive an expression for electric field at a point due to a dipole placed along its axial line. [ March 2016, June 2017 ] 6. Derive an expression for electric field at a point due to a dipole placed along its equatorial line. . [ March 2015, June 2019, Sep 2020 ] 7. Derive an expression for electric field at a point due to a charged , infinitely long conducting wire using Gauss’s law.( March 2015, March 2016) 8. Derive an expression for electric field at a point due to a charged , infinitely plane sheet using Gauss’s law. [ June 2015, July 2016 ] 9. Derive an expression for electric field at a point due to a charged spherical shell using Gauss’s law. ( March 2017, March 2019) 10. Using superposition principle, find the resultant force on a charge due to a multiple charges.( June 2016, March 2018) 11. Obtain an expression for torque acting on an electric dipole placed in a uniform electric field.( June 2017 June 2020, Chapter 2: Electrostatic Potential and Capacitance 12. Derive an expression for electric potential at point due to an isolated point charge. [ March 2017,March 2019 ] 13. What is an equipotential surface? Write two properties of equipotential surfaces. July 2014, March 2018, July 2020) 14. Obtain the relation between electric field and electric potential. [ July 2014, June 2015, March 2017, June 2017, March 2020, Sep 2020] 15Derive an expression for potential energy of an electric dipole in an uniform electric field. [ March 2019 , July 2019] 16. Derive an expression for the potential energy of a system of two point charges in absence of external electric field. [ March 2014, July 2016 ] 17. Obtain an expression for effective capacitance of capacitors connected in series. [ March2018, March 2019 ] 18.Obtain an expression for effective capacitance of capacitors connected in parallel. [ July 2018, June 2019 ] 19. Obtain an expression for capacitance of parallel plate capacitor without dielectric between plates. [ March 2015 ,july 2024, July 2020 20. Derive an expression for energy stored in a capacitor. March 2016, March 2017, March 2020 ]
