V Classes by balveer Chauhan

Date : 04-04-2024 STD 12 Science Physics Total Marks : 143

* Choose The Right Answer From The Given Options.[1 Marks Each] [47]
1. The electric potential decreases uniformly from 120V to 80V as one moves on the x-
axis from x = -1cm to x = + 1cm. The electric field at the origin.
(A) Must be equal to 20Vcm-1
(B) May be equal to 20Vcm-1
(C) May be greater than 20Vcm-1
(D) May be lees than 20Vcm-1
2. An electron enters an electric field with its velocity in the direction of the electric lines
of field then:
(A) The path of the electron will be a circle.
(B) The path of the electron will be a parabola.
(C) The velocity of the electron will decrease just after entry.
(D) The velocity of the electron will increase just after entry.
3. A hemisphere shell is uniformly charged positively. The electric field at a point on a
diameter away from the centre (inside the boundary of hemisphere shell) is directed:
(A) Perpendicular to the diameter.
(B) Parallel to the diameter.
(C) At an angle tilted towards the diameter.
(D) At an angle tilted away from the diameter.
4. Two charges of 10C and -15C are separated in air by 1m.The ratio of force exerted by
one on the other is:
(A) 1 : 2 (B) 2 : 1
(C) 1 : 1 (D) None of these
5. The charge on proton is:
(A) +e (B) -e (C) 1/e (D) -1/e
6. If a glass rod is rubbed on silk cloth and then brought near the bits of paper it...... then.
(A) Attracts
(B) Repel
(C) Both
(D) None
7. A charged conductor has its charge only on its outer surface. This statement is true for
which of the following?
(A) For all conductors.
(B) Only for spherical conductors.
(C) For hollow conductors.
(D) For those conductors which don’t have sharp edges.
8. A closed surface S is constructed around a conducting wire connected to a battery and
a switch (figure). As the switch is closed, the free electrons in the wire start moving
along the wire. In any time interval, the number of electrons entering the closed surface

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 S is equal to the number of electrons leaving it. On closing the switch, the flux of
the electric field through the closed surface:

(A) Is increased. (B) Is decreased.

(C) Remains unchanged. (D) Remains zero.
9. Two negative charges are kept at a certain distance in the air medium. What will
happen if a dielectric slab is inserted between them?
(A) The slab will get heated.
(B) Current will flow through the slab.
(C) Two charges will attract each other.
(D) The net force between the charges will be reduced.
10. The dimensions of linear charge density is:
(A) [L T A]. (B) [L-1 T A].
(C) [L-1 T-1 A-1]. (D) None.
11. For a single charge the field lines start or ends at:
(A) Positive charge.
(B) Negative charge.
(C) Infinity.
(D) None.
12. Coulomb’s Law is valid for ______?
(A) Only point charge.
(B) For both point charge and distributed charge.
(C) Only distributed charges.
(D) Neither distributed nor point charge.
13. The materials which allow to pass electricity through them easily are called as:
(A) Insulators. (B) Conductors.
(C) Semiconductors. (D) Superconductors.
14. Which among the following cannot be the charge of a charged body?
(A) 4.8 × 10-14 Coulomb (B) 6.4 × 10-15 Coulomb
(C) 5 × 10-14 Coulomb (D) 3.2 × 10-10 Coulomb
15. Complete the following statements with an appropriate word/ term be filled in the blank
space(s).
The force of attraction or repulsion between two charges is given by ......................
(A) Gauss's law (B) Kepler's law
(C) Coulomb's law (D) Gravitational law
16. Electric switches and appliances should be tested only with:

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 (A) Right hand (B) Left hand
(C) Both hands (D) Electric tester
17. 1 emu = __________ C
(A) 10 (B) 3 × 109 (C) 4.8 × 10-10 (D) 0.1
18. When the object has no electric charge then the object is said to be:
(A) Charged. (B) Electrified.
(C) Electrically neutral. (D) None.
19. The nature of charge on the object can be detected by:
(A) Microscope (B) Electroscope
(C) Electrometer (D) Telescope
20. The black shapes in the figure are closed surfaces. The electric field lines are in red. For
which case the net flux through the surfaces is non-zero?
(A) In all cases net flux is non-zero (B) Only (c) and (d)
(C) Only (a) and (b) (D) Only (b), (c) and (d)
21. The charge on electron is:
(A) +e (B) -e (C) 1/e (D) -1/e
22. In the thunderstorm, the charges accumulate near the upper edges of clouds are:
(A) Negatively charged. (B) Positively charged.
(C) Neutral. (D) None of these.
23. Superconductors have __________?
(A) Almost zero resistivity
(B) Very high resistivity
(C) Temperature-dependent resistivity
(D) Moderate value of resistivity
24. Electric field lines of force:
(A) Exist everywhere.
(B) Exist only in the immediate vicinity of electric charges.
(C) Exist only when both positive and negative charges are near one another.
(D) Are imaginary.
25. Dipole moment depends on _______?
(A) Charge only.
(B) Charge and length of a dipole.
(C) Charge, length of a dipole and dielectric constant of the medium.
(D) Charge and dielectric constant of the medium.
26. If a comb is rubbed on dry hairs, and then brought near paper pieces, it:
(A) Attracts paper.
(B) Repels paper.
(C) Remains indifferent to paper.
(D) Either attracts or repels paper.
27. When a comb rubbed with dry hair attracts pieces of paper. This is because the.
(A) Comb polarizes the piece of paper.

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 (B) Comb induces a net dipole moment opposite to the direction of field.
(C) Electric field due to the comb is uniform.
(D) Comb induces a net dipole moment perpendicular to the direction of field.
28. The SI unit of linear charge density is:
(A) C/m. (B) C. (C) Cm. (D) None.
29. The tangent at any point of field line gives the direction of:
(A) Electric field at that point.
(B) Electric force on positive charge at that point.
(C) Both (1) & (2).
(D) Rotation of charge.
30. The electric field at a point on equatorial line of a dipole and direction of the dipole
moment:
(A) Will be parallel.
(B) Will be in opposite direction.
(C) Will be perpendicular.
(D) Are not relate.
31. Four charges are kept at the corner points of a square. The net force on a charge kept
at the center of the square is _________?
(A) Along diagonal.
(B) Zero.
(C) Along one side.
(D) Depends on the nature of the charges.
32. 1 micro coulomb =
(A) 106C. (B) 10 - 6C. (C) 10C. (D) None.
33. A lightning arrester must have the following property.
(A) Discontinuity. (B) Poor conductivity.
(C) Needle end. (D) Low melting point.
34. An electron revolves around the nucleus of hydrogen atom in a circle of radius 5 × 10-
11 m. The intensity of electric field at a point in the orbit of the electron is:
(A) 5.76 × 1011 N/C (B) 9.216 × 10-8 N/C
(C) 0 (D) 4 N/C
35. A point positive charge is brought near an isolated conducting sphere. The electric field
is best given by:

(A) Fig (i). (B) Fig (ii). (C) Fig (iii). (D) Fig (iv).
36. The dimensions of volume charge density is:
(A) [L T A]. (B) [L-1 T A]. (C) [L-2 T A]. (D) [L-3 T A].
37. An electric field can deflect:
(A) Neutrons. (B) X − rays.

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 (C) γ − rays. (D) α − particles.

38. The dimensions of electric field are:

(A) [M L T-3 A-1]. (B) [M L T-2 A-1].
(C) [M L T-3 A-2]. (D) None.
39. The SI unit of electric field is:
(A) Vm. (B) V/m. (C) V. (D) None.
40. If a body is charged by rubbing it, its weight:
(A) Always decreases slightly.
(B) Always increases slightly.
(C) May increase slightly or may decrease slightly.
(D) Remains precisely the same.
41. _________ Charge is produced by friction.
(A) Stationary (B) No
(C) Attractive (D) All
42. An electric dipole will experience a net force when it is placed in.
(A) A uniform electric field.
(B) A non-uniform electric field.
(C) Both (a) and (b).
(D) None of these.
43. The dimensions of surface charge density is:
(A) [L-2 T A]. (B) [L-1 T A].
(C) [L T A]. (D) None.
44. Why is gold used in the Gold-leaf electroscope?
(A) Gold is easily available in nature.
(B) Gold is malleable.
(C) Gold is conducting in nature.
(D) Gold is cheap.
45. The law, governing the force between electric charges is known as.
(A) Ampere's law. (B) Ohm's law.
(C) Faraday's law. (D) Coulomb's law.
46. As shown in figure a dust particle with mass m = 5.0 × 10-9 kg and charge q0 =
2.0nC starts from rest at point a and moves in a straight line to point b. What is its speed
v at point b?

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 (A) 26 ms−1
(B) 34 ms−1
(C) 46 ms−1
(D) 14 ms−1
47. Which group among the following is insulator?
(A) Silver, copper, gold
(B) Paper, glass, cotton
(C) The human body, wood, iron
(D) Glass, copper, paper

* Given Section consists of questions of 2 marks each. [96]

48. a. Explain the meaning of the statement ‘electric charge of a body is quantised’.
b. Why can one ignore quantisation of electric charge when dealing with
macroscopic i.e., large scale charges?

49. An oil drop of 12 excess electrons is held stationary under a constant electric field of
2.55 × 104 NC-1 in Millikan’s oil drop experiment. The density of the oil is 1.26 g cm-3 .
Estimate the radius of the drop. (g = 9.81 m s-2 ; e = 1.60 × 10-19 C).
50. When a glass rod is rubbed with a silk cloth, charges appear on both. A similar
phenomenon is observed with many other pairs of bodies. Explain how this observation
is consistent with the law of conservation of charge.
51. A uniformly charged conducting sphere of 2.4 m diameter has a surface charge density
of 80.0 μC/m2 .
a. Find the charge on the sphere.
b. What is the total electric flux leaving the surface of the sphere?
52. An infinite line charge produces a field of 9 × 104 N/C at a distance of 2 cm. Calculate
the linear charge density.

53. a. An electrostatic field line is a continuous curve. That is, a field line cannot have
sudden breaks. Why not?
b. Explain why two field lines never cross each other at any point?

54. Show that the electric field at the surface of a charged conductor is given by
→
σ
E = ^ ,where
n σ is the surface charge density and n
^ is a unit vector normal to the
εo

surface in the outward direction.

55. The electric field E due to a point charge at any point near it is defined as
F
E = lim q→0
q
where q is the test charge and F is the force acting on it. What is
the physical significance of limq→0 in this expression? Draw the electric field lines of a
point charge Q when (a) Q>0 and (b) Q<0.
56. Two point charges 4Q, Q are separated by 1 m in air. At what point on the line joining
the charges is the electric field intensity zero?
Also calculate the electrostatic potential energy of the system of charges, taking the
value of charge, Q = 2 × 10–7 C.
57. →
Given a uniform electric field E : 4 x 103 ^
i N/C, find the flux of this field through a

square of 5cm on a side whose plane is parallel to the y-z plane. What would be the flux

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 ∘
through the same square if the plane makes a 30 angle with the x-axis?

58. A positive charge q is placed in front of a conducting solid cube at a distance d from its
centre. Find the electric field at the centre of the cube due to the charges appearing on
its surface.

59. A thin straight infinitely long conducting wire having charge density λ is enclosed by a
cylindrical surface of radius r and length l, its axis coinciding with the length of the wire.
Find the expression for the electric flux through the surface of the cylinder.

60. A metallic sphere is placed in a uniform electric field. Which one of paths a, b, c and d
shown in the figure will be followed by the field lines and why?
61. An electric dipole of dipole moment 20 × 10-6 C is enclosed by closed surface. What is
the net electric flux coming out of this surface?

62. Define electric field strength. Is it a vector or a scalar quantity?

63. Define electric flux. Write its S.I. unit.

A charge q is enclosed by a spherical surface of radius R. If the radius is reduced to half,
how would the electric flux through the surface change?

64. →
Given a uniform electric field E = 2 x 103 ^
i N/C find the flux of this field through

a square of side 20 cm, whose plane is parallel to the y-z plane. What would be the flux
∘
through the same square, if the plane makes an angle of 30 with the x-axis?
65. Can a gravitational field be added vectorially to an electric field to get a total field?
66. Represent graphically the variation of electric field with distance, for a uniformly
charged plane sheet.
67. A point charge produces an electric field of magnitude 5.0NC-1 at a distance of 40cm
from it. What is the magnitude of the charge?
68. The charge on a proton is +1.6 × 10-19 C and that on an electron is -1.6 × 10-19 C. Does
it mean that the electron has a charge 3.2 × 10-19 C less than the charge of a proton?

69. The force between two point charges kept at a distance r apart in air is F. If the same
charges are kept in water at the same distance, how does the force between them
change?

70. Consider two particles A and B having equal charges and placed at some distance. The
particle A is slightly displaced towards B. Does the force on B increase as soon as the
particle A is displaced? Does the force on the particle A increase as soon as it is
displaced?

71. A charge Q is placed at the centre of a cube. Find the flux of the electric field through
the six surfaces of the cube.
72. A capacitor, made of two parallel plates each of plate area A and separation d, is being
charged by an external ac source. Show that the displacement current inside the
capacitor is the same as the current charging the capacitor.
73. 1
Plot a graph showing the variation of coulomb force (F) versus( ); where r is the
r2

distance between the two charges of each pair of charges: (1 μC, 2 μC) and (2 μC, – 3
μC). Interpret the graphs obtained.
74. Two point electric charges of unknown magnitude and sign are placed at some distance
‘d’ apart. The electric field intensity is zero at a point, not between the charges but on

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 the line joining them.
Write two essential conditions for this to happen.
75. An electric dipole of length 4 cm, when placed with its axis making an angle of 60o with
–
a uniform electric field, experiences a torque of 4√3 Nm. Calculate the potential energy
of the dipole, if it has charge ±8 nC.
76. Find the electric force between two protons separated by a distance of 1 fermi (1 fermi
= 10-15 m). The protons in a nucleus remain at a separation of this order.
77. The dimensions of an atom are of the order of an Angstrom. Thus there must be large
electric fields between the protons and electrons. Why, then is the electrostatic field
inside a conductor zero?
78. Considering the case of a parallel plate capacitor being charged, show how one is
required to generalize Ampere’s circuital law to include the term due to displacement
current.
79. A point charge is placed at the centre of a closed Gaussian spherical surface of radius r.
Electric flux passing through the surface is Φ How is the electric flux Φ through the
surface affected when the following changes are made in turn:
i. The spherical surface is replaced by a cylindrical surface of the same radius?
ii. The point charge is replaced by an electric dipole?
Justify your answer in each case.

80. →
Given a uniform electric field E : 5 x 103 ^
i N/C, find the flux of this field through a

square of l0 cm on a side whose plane is parallel to the y-z plane. What would be the
flux through the same square if the plane makes a 300 angle with the x-axis?
81. A wire is bent in the form of a regular hexagon and a total charge q is distributed
uniformly on it. What is the electric field at the centre? You may answer this part without
making any numerical calculations.
82. A charge Q is placed at the centre of an imaginary hemispherical surface. Using
symmetry arguments and the Gauss's law, find the flux of the electric field due to this
charge through the surface of the hemisphere (figure).

83. Find the flux of the electric field through a spherical surface of radius R due to a charge
of 10-7 C at the centre and another equal charge at a point 2R away from the centre.

84. The distance of the field point on the axis of a small dipole is doubled. By what factor
will the electric field, due to the dipole change?

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85. The distance of the field point, on the equatorial plane of a small electric dipole is
halved. By what factor does the electric field due to the dipole change?

86. Is there any lower limit to the electric force between two particles placed at a
separation of 1cm ?

87. A parallel plate capacitor of capacitance C is charged to a potential V. It is then

connected to another uncharged capacitor having the same capacitance. Find out the
ratio of the energy stored in the combined system to that stored initially in the single
capacitor.

88. A block of mass m having a charge q is placed on a smooth horizontal table and is
connected to a wall through an unstressed spring of spring constant k as shown in
figure. A horizontal electric field E parallel to the spring is switched on. Find the
amplitude of the resulting SHM of the block.

89. The electric field E due to any point charge near it is defined as E = lim
F
where q is
q
q→0

the test charge and F is the force acting on it. What is the physical significance of lim in
q→0

this expression?
Draw the electric lines of point charge Q when,
i. Q>0
ii. Q < 0.

90. A block of mass m containing a net positive charge q is placed on a smooth horizontal
table which terminates in a vertical wall as shown in figure. The distance of the block
from the wall is d. A horizontal electric field E towards right is switched on. Assuming
elastic collisions (if any) find the time period of the resulting oscillatory motion. Is it a
simple harmonic motion?

91. The electric force experienced by a charge of 1.0 × 10-6 C is 1.5 × 10-3 N. Find the
magnitude of the electric field at the position of the charge.
92. Define electric flux. Write its S.I. units. A spherical rubber balloon carries a charge that is
uniformly distributed over its surface. As the balloon is blown up and increases in size,
how does the total electric flux coming out of the surface change? Give reason.
93. At what separation should two equal charges, 1.0C each, be placed so that the force
between them equals the weight of a 50kg person?

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94. A hydrogen atom contains one proton and one electron. It may be assumed that the
electron revolves in a circle of radius 0.53 angstrom (1 angstrom = 10-10 m and is
abbreviated as A) with the proton at the centre. The hydrogen atom is said to be in the
ground state in this case. Find the magnitude of the electric force between the proton
and the electron of a hydrogen atom in its ground state.
95. A circular wire-loop of radius a carries a total charge Q distributed uniformly over its
length. A small length dL of the wire is cut off. Find the electric field at the centre due to
the remaining wire.

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