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Unit 1 – Electrostatics ( Including board questions)

Find the equivalent capacitance of the following networks:


Q. Draw electric field lines and equipotential surfaces for the following:

(a) q > 0 (b) q< 0 (c) q1q2 >0 (d) q1q2 <0

Q. If the radius is reduced to half, how would the electric flux through the surface change?

Q. a)A uniformly charged sphere has total charge of 300 µC and a radius of 8 cm. Find the
electric field (a) at a point 16 cm from the centre of the sphere. (b) at a point on the surface of
the sphere, and (c) at a point inside the sphere.

(b)An infinite line charge produces a field of 9x104 N/C at a distance of 2 cm. Calculate the
linear charge density.

(c) A charge of 1500 µC is distributed uniformly over a very large sheet of surface area 300m2.
Calculate the electric field at a distance of 25 cm.
Q. Three point charges 1 pC each is kept at vertex of an equilateral triangle
with each side 10cm. Find the net electric field at centroid of the triangle.

Q. Four point charges of 1μC, −2μC, 1μC and −2μC are placed at the corners
A, B, C and D respectively, of a square of side 30 cm . Find the net force acting
on a charge of 4μC placed at the centre of the square.

Q. The electric field components due to a charge inside the cube of side 0.1 m are as shown :
Ex = αx, where α = 500 N/C-m, Ey = 0, Ez = 0.
Calculate (i) the flux through the cube, and (ii) the charge inside the cube.
Q. A uniformly charged conducting sphere of 2.4m diameter has a surface charge density
8.0x10-7C/m2. Find the charge on the sphere. What is the total flux leaving the surface?

Q. If the radius of the Gaussian surface enclosing a charge is halved, how does the
electric flux through the Gaussian surface change?

Q. Can two equipotential surfaces intersect each other? Justify your answer.

Q. (a)A uniformly charged sphere has total charge of 300 µC and a radius of 8 cm. Find the
electric field (i) at a point 16 cm from the centre of the sphere. (ii) at a point on the surface of
the sphere, and (iii) at a point inside the sphere.

(b)An infinite line charge produces a field of 9x104 N/C at a distance of 2 cm. Calculate the
linear charge density.

(c) A charge of 1500 µC is distributed uniformly over a very large sheet of surface area 300m2.
Calculate the electric field at a distance of 25 cm.
Q. In an electric dipole, the value of charge is 3.2 x 10-19 C and distance between
the charges is 2.4 A0. It is placed in an electric field of 4 x 105 V/m at an angle of
30o. Find (a) the dipole moment and (ii) torque on the dipole.

Q. An electric dipole of moment p is placed parallel to the uniform electric field.


What is the amount of work done in rotating the dipole by 90o ?

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