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This document contains 10 practice problems related to electrostatics. The problems cover calculating electrostatic force, electric flux through surfaces, electric field and potential differences for various charge configurations including parallel plates, spark plugs, clouds and ground, point charges, coaxial cables, and charged spherical shells. The student is asked to calculate values for electric fields, fluxes, and potentials given information about charge amounts and distributions and distances between charges.

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Assignment 2

This document contains 10 practice problems related to electrostatics. The problems cover calculating electrostatic force, electric flux through surfaces, electric field and potential differences for various charge configurations including parallel plates, spark plugs, clouds and ground, point charges, coaxial cables, and charged spherical shells. The student is asked to calculate values for electric fields, fluxes, and potentials given information about charge amounts and distributions and distances between charges.

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EMT Assignment# 2 (50 Marks)

Problem 1
The total number of electrons in the human body is typically in the order of 10 28.
Suppose, due to some reason, you and your friend lost 1% of this number of
electrons. Calculate the electrostatic force between you and your friend separated
at a distance of 1m.

Problem 2
A closed triangular box is kept in an electric field of magnitude E = 2 × 10 3 N C-1 as
shown in the figure.

Calculate the electric flux through the (a) vertical rectangular surface (b) slanted
surface and (c) entire surface.
Problem 3

A spark plug in a bike or a car is used to ignite the air-fuel mixture in the engine. It
consists of two electrodes separated by a gap of around 0.6 mm gap as shown in the
figure.

To create the spark, an electric field of magnitude 3 × 106 Vm-1 is required. (a) What
potential difference must be applied to produce the spark? (b) If the gap is increased,
does the potential difference increase, decrease or remains the same? (c) find the
potential difference if the gap is 1 mm.

Problem 4
During a thunder storm, the movement of water molecules within the clouds
creates friction, partially causing the bottom part of the clouds to become
negatively charged. This implies that the bottom of the cloud and the ground act as
a parallel plate capacitor. If the electric field between the cloud and ground exceeds
the dielectric breakdown of the air (3 × 10 6 Vm-1), lightning will occur.
If the bottom part of the cloud is 1000 m above the ground, determine the electric
potential difference that exists between the cloud and ground.
Problem 5
Calculate the electric field at points P, Q for the following two cases, as shown in
the figure.
(a) A positive point charge +1 µC is placed at the origin
(b) A negative point charge -2 µC is placed at the origin
Problem 6
Consider the charge configuration as shown in the figure. Calculate the electric
field at point A. If an electron is placed at points A, what is the acceleration
experienced by this electron? (mass of the electron = 9.1 × 10-31 kg and charge of
electron = −1.6 × 10 -19 C

Problem 7
Calculate the electric flux through the rectangle of sides 5 cm and 10 cm kept in the
region of a uniform electric field 100 NC-1. The angle θ is 60o. Suppose θ becomes
zero, what is the electric flux?
Problem 8

(i) In figure (a), calculate the electric flux through the closed areas A1 and A2.
(ii) In figure (b), calculate the electric flux through the cube

Problem 9
A coaxial cable is a type of copper cable specially built with a metal shield and
other components engineered to block signal interference. It is primarily used by
cable TV companies to connect their satellite antenna facilities to customer homes
and businesses.
Consider a solid cylindrical conductor of radius a surrounded by a coaxial
cylindrical shell of inner radius b, as shown in Figure below. Where λ = Q / L is
the charge per unit length.
1. Find electric field everywhere around coaxial line,
(a) r <a,
(b) a<r<b
(c) r>b
2. Potential difference between two conductors of coaxial cable
3. Capacitance of coaxial cable

Problem 10
To determine the electric field due to a uniformly charged thin spherical shell (just
like a tennis Ball) shows in blue colour, the following three cases are considered:

Case 1: At a point outside the spherical shell where r > R.


Case 2: At a point on the surface of a spherical shell where r = R.
Case 3: At a point inside the spherical shell where r < R.
Let us consider each case separately to determine the electric field.

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