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Subject: Physics Class: II PUC
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Chapter 1: Electric charges and Fields
Two- and three-marks questions
1. Mention the methods of charging a body.
2. Mention the basic properties of electric charge.
3. State and explain Coulomb’s law of electrostatics.
4. Mention the properties of electric field lines.
5. Draw nature electric field lines for (a) q>0 (b) q<0 (c) electric dipole (d) uniform electric
field.
6. State Gauss’ law in electrostatics.
7. Define (a) linear charge density (b) surface charge density and (c) volume charge density.
8. Derive an expression for torque acting on a dipole placed in uniform electric field.
Five-mark questions
1. Derive an expression for electric field due to an electric dipole at a point along its axis.
2. Derive an expression for electric field due to an electric dipole at a point along its
equatorial line.
3. Derive an expression for electric field due to uniformly charged infinite straight wire.
4. Derive an expression for electric field due to uniformly charged infinite plane sheet.
5. Derive an expression for electric field due to uniformly charged spherical shell at a point
(a) outside the shell (b) on the shell and (c) inside the shell.
Chapter 2: Electric potential and capacitance

1. Mention the properties of equipotential surfaces.
2. Derive the relation between electric field intensity and electric potential.
3. Define (a) Dielectric strength and (b) Susceptibility.
4. What are polar and non-polar molecules? Mention examples for each.
5. Mention the expression for electric potential energy of system of two charges and system
of three charges and explain the terms.
6. Derive an expression electric potential energy of dipole placed in uniform electric field.
7. Derive an expression for capacitance of parallel plate capacitor in the presence of
dielectric medium.
8. Mention the factors on which capacitance of a capacitor depends.
9. Derive an expression for equivalent capacitance of two capacitors connected in series.
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10.Derive an expression for equivalent capacitance of two capacitors connected in parallel.
11.Mention the expression for energy stored in a capacitor and explain the terms.
Five-mark questions
1. Derive an expression for electric potential due to point charge.
2. Derive an expression for electric potential due to dipole.
3. Derive an expression for capacitance of parallel plate capacitor in the presence of
dielectric medium.
Chapter 3: Current electricity
1. State and explain ohm’s law.
2. Mention the limitations of ohm’s law.
3. What are ohmic devices and non-ohmic devices and give example for each.
4. Define drift velocity and derive an expression for drift velocity in terms of relaxation
time.
5. Define (a) mobility (b) relaxation time (c) resistance (c) conductance (d) resistivity (e)
conductivity (f) current density.
6. Derive an expression for electric current in terms of drift velocity.
7. State Kirchhoff’s current law and Kirchhoff’s voltage law. Mention their significance.
8. Mention the factors on which resistivity of a material depends.
Five-mark questions
1. Derive an expression for conductivity of a material in terms of relaxation time.
2. Derive an expression for equivalent emf and internal resistance of two cells connected in
series.
3. Derive an expression for equivalent emf and internal resistance of two cells connected in
parallel.
4. Derive an expression for balancing condition of wheatstones bridge.
Chapter 4: Moving charges and magnetism
1. Mention the expression for force experienced by a charged particle moving in magnetic
field. Also write it in vector form.
2. When is the force experienced by a charged particle moving in magnetic field is (i)
minimum and (ii) maximum?
3. Define Lorentz force and mention its expression in vector form.
4. Derive an expression for force acting on a current carrying conductor moving in
magnetic field.
5. Derive an expression for radius, time period, frequency and angular frequency in case of
charged particle moving in perpendicular magnetic field in circular path.
6. State and explain Biot-savart’s law.
7. State and explain amperes circuital law.
8. Explain the conversion of galvanometer into ammeter.
9. Explain the conversion of galvanometer in voltmeter.
10.With the help of diagram derive an expression for torque acting on a rectangular current
loop placed in uniform magnetic field.
Five-mark questions
1. Derive an expression for magnetic field due to uniformly charged circular current loop at
a point along its axis.
2. Derive an expression for force between two parallel current carrying conductors. Hence
define ampere.
NUMERICALS
Q1. Two point charges 𝑞𝐴 = 3𝜇𝐶 and 𝑞𝐵 = −3𝜇𝐶 are located 20 cm apart in vacuum.
(a) What is the electric field at the midpoint O of the line AB joining the two charges?
(b) If a negative test charge of magnitude 1.5 nC is placed at this point, what is the
force experienced by the test charge?
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Q2. Two point charges 3nC and -3nC are placed at two corners A and B of an equilateral
triangle of side 0.1m. Find the resultant electric field at C.
Q3. The electrostatic force on a metal sphere of charge 0.4𝜇𝐶 due to anther identical
metal sphere of charge -0.8𝜇𝐶 in air is 0.2 N. Find the distance between the two spheres.
Find the new force when they are brought in contact and then replaced in their initial
positions.
Q4. Two charges 30nC and -20nC are located 15 cm apart. At what points on the line
joining the two charges is the electric potential zero? Take the potential at infinity to be
zero.
Q5. Charges 2mC, 4mC and 6mC are placed at the three corners A, B and C of a square
ABCD of side x metre. Find what charge must be placed at the fourth corner so that net
potential at the centre of the square becomes zero.
Q6. ABCD is a square of side 4cm. Point charges of +2nC, -2nC and +3nC are placed at
corners A, B, C respectively. Calculate the work done in transferring a charge of +4nC
from D to the centre of the square.
Q7. In a parallel plate capacitor with air between the plates, each plate has an area of
8 × 10-3 m2 and the distance between the plates is 2 mm. Calculate the capacitance of the
capacitor. If this capacitor is connected to a 50 V supply, what is the charge on each plate
of the capacitor? (Absolute permittivity of free space = 8.854×10-12 F/m)

Q8. Energy stored in a system consisting of two capacitors in series and connected across
4kV line is 8J. When the same two capacitors are in parallel across the same line, energy
stored is 36J. Find the capacitance of the capacitors.
Q9. The current flowing through a conductor having electron density 6 × 1026 m-3 is
5A. Calculate the time taken by an electron to drift from one end to other end of 10 m
length of it. Area of cross section of the wire = 2𝑚𝑚2 . Given: Charge of electron, 𝑒 =
1.6 × 10−19 𝐶.
Q10. 100 mg of mass of nichrome metal is drawn into a wire of cross section 0.05 mm2.
Calculate the resistance of this wire. Given the density of nichrome 8.4 × 103 𝑘𝑔𝑚−3
and resistivity of the material as 1.2 × 10−6 Ωm.
Q11. Two cells of emf 2 V and 4 V and internal resistance 1 Ω and 2 Ω respectively are
connected in parallel so as to send the current in the same direction through an external
resistance of 10 Ω. Find the potential difference across 10 Ω.
Q12. In the given circuit, calculate the current through galvanometer.
Q13. In the given circuit, calculate the current through galvanometer.


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Chapter 2: Electric potential and capacitance

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Q13. In the given circuit, calculate the current through galvanometer.

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