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Bachelor of Science 1st Semester

PHYSICS
(Electricity and Magnetism-I)
Time : Three Hours Maximum Marks :44
Note. Attempt five questions in all, selecting two questions from each Unit (I & II). Unit III is compulsory.
Use of non-programmable scientific calculator is allowed.
Unit-I
1. (a) Find the electric field due to uniformly charged wire of length / at a point on its axis.
(b) Prove that divergence of curl of any vector field is always zero:
⃗∇. ⃗∇ × 𝐴 = 0.
2. (a) What is an electric dipole? Find the electric field due to electric dipole at a point on its axial line.
(b) Two point charges q and -3q are located at a distance d apart. If the electric field at a location of
charge q is E , find the electric field at the location of charge -3q.
3. (a) State and prove Stobe's theorem.
(b) Obtain Gauss's law of electrostatics in its differential form
Unit-II
4. (a) 𝑃⃗ 1
Show that potential at a point due to electric dipole is 4𝜋𝜖 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑑 (𝑟) where 𝑃⃗ is the electric dipole
0
moment.

5.
(b)
(a)
o m
How is the potential difference between two points related to concept of work ?
Derive an expression for electric potential at any point due to an arbitrary charge distribution.

6.
(b)
(a) .r c
Show that electric potential function 𝑥 2 − 𝑦 2 + z satisfies Laplace's equation.
What is electrical image ? Find the potential energy of point charge placed near

(b)
p e
conducting sheet at zero potential.
m
Prove that the line integral of electric field due to point charge between two points is
path independent.
a o
r p Unit-III
.r c
7.
(i)
(ii)
b
Attempt any eight parts :
What is an irrotational field ?
What is gradient V ? p e
(iii) What are limitations of Coulomb's law?
p a
(iv)
(v)
State law of conservation of charge
Define electric line of force.
b r
(vi) Define electric flux.
(vii) Can potential at a point be zero if electric field there is not zero ? Explain.
(viii) What is conservative field ?
(ix) What is atomic polarizability?
(x) Define electrical susceptibility.

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