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Electrostatic Potential and Capacitance: Class Notes

This document contains a lecture on electrostatic potential and capacitance. It includes 15 questions related to these topics, such as calculating the potential at various points near charged objects, determining capacitance for capacitors connected in series and parallel, and finding the stored electrostatic energy and charge on capacitors. It also provides conceptual questions about electric fields and potentials near conducting shells and quadrupoles.

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Electrostatic Potential and Capacitance: Class Notes

This document contains a lecture on electrostatic potential and capacitance. It includes 15 questions related to these topics, such as calculating the potential at various points near charged objects, determining capacitance for capacitors connected in series and parallel, and finding the stored electrostatic energy and charge on capacitors. It also provides conceptual questions about electric fields and potentials near conducting shells and quadrupoles.

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Lecture No.

- 01

NCERT PUNCH

• Subject Name- Physics

• Chapter Name- Electrostatic


Potential
and By- Abhilash Sharma
Capacitance
Q. Question

Two charges 5 × 10−8 C and −3 × 10−8 C are located 16 cm 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.
Q. Question

A regular hexagon of side 10 cm has a charge 5μC at each of its vertices. Calculate
the potential at the centre of the hexagon.
Q. Question

Two charges 2μC and −2μC are placed at points 𝐴 and 𝐵, 6 cm apart.
(a) Identify an equipotential surface of the system.
Q. Question

(b) What is the direction of the electric field at every point on this surface?
Q. Question

A spherical conductor of radius 12 cm has a charge of 1.6 × 10−7 C distributed


uniformly on its surface. What is the electric field
(a) inside the sphere
Q. Question

(b) just outside the sphere


Q. Question

(c) at a point 18 cm from the centre of the sphere?


Q. Question

A parallel plate capacitor with air between the plates has a capacitance of
8pF 1pF = 10−12 F . What will be the capacitance if the distance between the plates
is reduced by half, and the space between them is filled with a substance of
dielectric constant 6 ?
Q. Question

Three capacitors each of capacitance 9pF are connected in series.


(a) What is the total capacitance of the combination?
Q. Question

(b) What is the potential difference across each capacitor if the combination is
connected to a 120 V supply?
Q. Question

Three capacitors of capacitances 2pF, 3pF and 4pF are connected in parallel.
(a) What is the total capacitance of the combination?
Q. Question

(b) Determine the charge on each capacitor if the combination is connected to a


100 V supply.
Q. Question

In a parallel plate capacitor with air between the plates, each plate has an area of
6 × 10−3 m2 and the distance between the plates is 3 mm. Calculate the capacitance
of the capacitor. If this capacitor is connected to a 100 V supply, what is the charge
on each plate of the capacitor?
Q. Question

Explain what would happen if in the capacitor a 3 mm thick mica sheet (of dielectric
constant = 6 ) were inserted between the plates,
(a) while the voltage supply remained connected.
Q. Question

(b) after the supply was disconnected.


Q. Question

A 12pF capacitor is connected to a 50 V battery. How much electrostatic energy is


stored in the capacitor?
Q. Question

A 600pF capacitor is charged by a 200 V supply. It is then disconnected from the


supply and is connected to another uncharged 600pF capacitor. How much
electrostatic energy is lost in the process?
Q. Question

A charge of 8mC is located at the origin. Calculate the work done in taking a small
charge of −2 × 10−9 C from a point 𝑃(0,0,3 cm) to a point 𝑄(0,4 cm, 0), via a point
R(0,6 cm, 9 cm).
Q. Question

A spherical conducting shell of inner radius 𝑟1 and outer radius 𝑟2 has a charge 𝑄.
(a) A charge 𝑞 is placed at the centre of the shell. What is the surface charge
density on the inner and outer surfaces of the shell?
Q. Question

(b) Is the electric field inside a cavity (with no charge) zero, even if the shell is not
spherical, but has any irregular shape? Explain.
Q. Question

Two charged conducting spheres of radii 𝑎 and 𝑏 are connected to each other by a
wire. What is the ratio of electric fields at the surfaces of the two spheres? Use the
result obtained to explain why charge density on the sharp and pointed ends of a
conductor is higher than on its flatter portions.
Q. Question

Two charges −𝑞 and +𝑞 are located at points (0,0, −𝑎) and (0,0, 𝑎), respectively.
(a) What is the electrostatic potential at the points (0,0, 𝑧) and 𝑥, 𝑦, 0 ?
Q. Question

(b) Obtain the dependence of potential on the distance 𝑟 of a point from the origin
when 𝑟/𝑎 ≫ 1.
Q. Question

(c) How much work is done in moving a small test charge from the point (5,0,0) to
(−7,0,0) along the 𝑥-axis? Does the answer change if the path of the test charge
between the same points is not along the 𝑥-axis?
Q. Question

Figure shows a charge array known as an electric quadrupole. For a point on the axis
of the quadrupole, obtain the dependence of potential on 𝑟 for 𝑟/𝑎 ≫ 1, and contrast
your results with that due to an electric dipole, and an electric monopole
(i.e., a single charge).
Q. Question

An electrical technician requires a capacitance of 2μF in a circuit across a potential


difference of 1kV. A large number of 1𝜇F capacitors are available to him each of
which can withstand a potential difference of not more than 400 V. Suggest a
possible arrangement that requires the minimum number of capacitors.
Q. Question

Obtain the equivalent capacitance of the network in Figure. For a 300 V supply,
determine the charge and voltage across each capacitor.
THANK
YOU

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