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WORK SHEET 1 ( ELECTROSTATICS I)

1. 3 charged bodies A,B and C. A and B repel each other, A attracts C. What is nature of force between B & C.
2. Two charges q1 q2 < 0. What is the nature of force between them?
3. Define and derive (i) Coulomb.(ii) Electric field (iii) Dipole moment.
4. Why two electric lines cannot intersect each other.
5. An electric charge is free to in electric field. Will it always move along line of force?
6. Differentiate between electric and gravitational field.
7. Two identical charges Q are kept at distance r apart. Third point charge is kept on the line joining the charges
find the position and magnitude of charge for system be in equilibrium.
8. Two point charges + 16 C and 9 C are 80 cm apart. Find the point where E is zero.
9. 5 point charges q each are placed at 5 vertices of hexagon of length L. Find the magnitude and direction of
force experienced by point charge –q placed at center.
10. Pendulum of 80 mg is at rest in horizontal E of 20 kV/m. The charge on bob is 200 C. find the tension and
angle with vertical.
11. 27 identical drops of Hg charged to same potential of 10 V coalesce to form a single large drop. What will be
the potential of new drop?
12. Two identical charged spheres, A and B repel each other with force of 200 mN. Third uncharged sphere is first
touched to A and then to B and finally placed at center. Find the net force on third sphere.
13. Two identical charged balls are suspended in air by strings of equal lengths and make an angle of 30 0 with each
other. When suspended in liquid of density 800 kg/m3 the angle remains the same. ( solid = 1600 kg/m3) Find
r of liquid.
14. A charge Q is distributed over two concentric hollow spheres of radii r and R such that their surface densities
are equal. Find the potential at common center
15. Two identical spheres are attracting each other by 0.108 N when 0.5 m apart. Now they are touched by wire
and they start repelling each other by 0.036 N. find initial charges.
16. A +ve q charge is placed exactly between 2 identical charges +ve Q kept ‘2a’ apart. If q is displaced describe
its motion.
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TOPIC: ELECTRIC POTENTIAL
Short answer type:
1. If electric field at a point is equal to zero, is it necessary that the electric potential at that point also zero?
Justify your answer giving atleast two examples.
2. Two metal spheres A and B of radii 2cm and 3cm are charged separately with 12 μC and 18 μC respectively.
They are connected by a conducting wire. How much charge will flow and in which direction? [zero]
3. The potential at ,a certain distance form a point charge is 600 volts, and the electric field is 200 N/C. a) What
is the distance to the point charge? b) What is the magnitude of the charge? [Ans. a) 3m b) 2 x 10–7C]
4. Write four properties of equipotential surfaces.
5. Show that electric lines of force are perpendicular to the equipotential surface.
6. Describe schematically, equipotential surfaces corresponding to i) a constant electric field in z-direction ii) a
field that uniformly increases in magnitude but remains in constant direction say z- direction. iii) a field that
uniformly decreases in magnitude but remains in constant direction say z- direction. iv) a single positively
charge at the origin v) an electric dipole.
7. If a piece of metal has a charge + 0.1 μC and is placed inside a hollow metal sphere of radius 20cm (without
touching it), What is the potential of the sphere? What will the potential of the sphere become if i) the sphere is
temporarily earthed and then insulated? ii) the metal subsequently touches the inside of the sphere?
8. An infinite number of charges each numerically equal to q and of the same sign are placed along the x-axis at
x = 1,x = 2,x = 4,x = 8 and so on. Find electric potential at x = 0. [Ans. 2q /4πo]
9. Electric potential of earth to be taken zero. Why?
10. If 100 joule of work must be done to move an electric charge of 4C from a place where potential is –10 volt to
another place where potential is V volt. What is the value of V? [Ans. 15V ]
11. Calculate the electric potential energy of the system of charges shown in fig.(1) and fig (2).

 2kq 2 kq 2 ( 2  4) 10kq 2
[Ans ; ; ]
a 2 a a
12. Twenty seven charged water droplets each with a diameter of 2mm and a charge of 10−12 C coalesce to form
a single drop. Calculate the potential difference of the bigger drop. [Ans. 81 V ]
13. Three charges are held as shown in the fig 3. What is their mutual electric potential energy? Given q =10−7 C
and a=10 cm [Ans −9 x 10 −3J]K
14. Two charges 5  10 C and −3  10 C are located 16 cm apart. At what points (s) on the line joining the two
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charges is the electric potential zero? Take the potential at Infinity to be zero. [Ans. 10 cm, 40 cm away]
15. A regular hexagon of side 10 cm has a charge 5 μC at each of its vertices. Calculate the potential at the
center of the hexagon. [Ans. 2.7  106 volts]
16. Two charges 2μC and −2μC are placed at points A and B 6 cm apart. a) Identify an equipotential surface of
the system. b) What is the value of electric potential and direction of the electric field at every point on this
surface? [Ans. a) the plane normal to AB and passing through its mid-point. b) V = 0, Electric field is normal
to the plane in the direction A to B]
17. A charge oil droplet remain stationary when suspended between two parallel plates 20 mm apart maintained
at pd of 500 V. Find the charge on the droplet if the mass of the droplet is 2  10 −4 kg. [ Ans.8 10 −8C]
18. A charge 8  10−3 C 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 0(0,4 cm, 0), via a point R (0,6 cm, 9 cm). [Ans 1.2 J]
19. Two electrons each with the velocity of 106 m/s are released towards each other. What will be the distance
closest approach? [Ans 2.56 × 10–10 m]
20. Uniform electric field of 2 kN/C is in the X-direction. A point charge of 3 μC initially at rest at the origin is
released. What is the kinetic energy of this charge at x = 4m? [Ans 24 mJ]
21. The electric field outside a charged long straight wire is given by E = 1000/r V/m and is directed outwards.
What is the sign of the charge on the wire? If two points A and B are situated such that rA = 0.2m and rB =
0.4m, find the value of (VA – VB). [Ans. +charge; +693.1V]
22. The electric potential V at any point (x,y,z) in space is given by V = 4x2 volt. Calculate electric intensity at the
point (1m, 0, 2m) also calculate force experienced by 1 μC charge placed at point x = 1m.
[Ans. 8 V/m along -ve X, 8 × 10–6N]
23. Several charged oil droplets each carrying charge q, radius r and potential V coalesces together to form a big
drop of radius R. Show that potential of the big drop is given by VR2/r2
24. A spherical drop, carrying a charge of 3 × 1010 C, has a potential of 500 V at its surface. If eight such drops
 combine to form a single spherical drop, what will be the potential at the surface of this drop?
[Ans. 2000 V ]
25. A metal sphere 0.30 m radius is positively of charged with 2μC. Find the potential i) 1m from the center ii) a
point on the surface. Also find electric field iii) at the distance of 0.2 m from the center iv) at the center.
[Ans. i) 18 kV ii) 60 kV iii) Zero iv) Zero]
26. Figure shows an arrangement the three charges. The tot0al potential energy of this
arrangement is zero. Calculate the ratio q/Q. [Ans. 4:1]
27. Two point charges q1 = + 40× 10–9 C and q2 = –30 × 10–9 C are 10 cm apart. Calculate (i) potential lat a point
midway between them, (ii) at point b which Is 8 cm form q1, and 6 cm from q2. [Ans. a) 1800 V b) Zero]
28. A charge Q is distributed over two concentric hollow spheres of radii r and R (R > r) such that the surface
 1  R  r 
charge densities are equal. Find the potential at the common centre. [Ans   2 2  ]
 40  R  r 
29. Three concentric spherical shells A, B and C of radii a, b and c (a < b < c) have charge densities , – and 
respectively. (i) find the potential of three shells A,B and C. (ii) If the shells A and C are at the same potential,
obtain the relation between the radii a, b and c.
   a2  a 2  b2 
Ans VA  (a  b  c), VB  (  b  c), VC  (  c) (ii )c  a  b
 0 0 b 0 c 
30. Charge q is distributed uniformly throughout a non-conducting sphere of radius R. Calculate the potential at a
Q  3R 2  x 2 
point distance x (x < R) from the centre of the sphere. [Ans V   ]
40  2R 2 
31. If the potential in the region of space around the point (–1m, 2m, 3m) is given by V = 10x2 + 5y2 + 3z2.
calculate the three components of electric field at this point. [Ans: Ex = 20V/m, Ey = –20V/m, Ez = 18V/m]
32. Uniform electric field of 300 N/C is directed along PQ. A B and C are three points in the field having x and y
coordinates (in mtr) as shown in the figure. Calculate pd between the points i) A and B and ii) B and C
[Ans. i) zero ii) 2100 volt]