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Electrostatics Assignment 2

The document outlines an electrostatics assignment consisting of 12 problems related to electric fields, potentials, and forces involving conductors and charge distributions. Key topics include surface charge densities, forces between charged objects, and the effects of external electric fields on conductors. Each problem requires analytical solutions based on principles of electrostatics.

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Electrostatics Assignment 2

The document outlines an electrostatics assignment consisting of 12 problems related to electric fields, potentials, and forces involving conductors and charge distributions. Key topics include surface charge densities, forces between charged objects, and the effects of external electric fields on conductors. Each problem requires analytical solutions based on principles of electrostatics.

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Electrostatics assignment 2

1) Two spherical cavities of radii a and b are hollowed out from the interior of a neutral conducting
sphere of radius R. At the centre of each cavity, point charges qa and qb
are respectively are placed.
qa
R
a) Find the surface densities on the two cavity walls and the outer
surface of the sphere
qb
b) What is the field outside the conductor?
c) What is the field within each cavity?
d) What is the force on qa and qb?
e) Which of these answers would change if a third charge qc were brought near the conductor?

2) Half of a non-conducting thin shell of radius is given uniform surface charge density and the
other half uniform surface charge density .Determine the force of repulsion between the two
hemispheres.

3) A thin non conducting disc of radius has uniform surface charge density . Determine the electric
potential at the circumference of the disc.

4) Two solid non-conducting hemispheres of radius , each having charge , are held together to form a
sphere. Determine the force required to be applied on each hemisphere.

5) Consider some charge distribution in space. Consider an imaginary spherical surface in space not
containing (on it or inside) any of the charges. Show that the average electric potential over its
surface is equal to the electric potential at its center. You can show the result to be true for one
charge and then use superposition.

6) Suppose the surface charge density over a sphere of radius R depends on the
polar angle as , where is a positive constant. See figure (a). θ

Show that such a charge distribution can be represented as a result of a small


relative shift of two uniformly charged balls of radius R whose charges are equal
in magnitude but opposite in sign. See figure (b). (Shaded portion is the (a) (b)
uncompensated charge that would come out on the surface.). Resorting to this
representation, find the electric field strength inside the given sphere.

E0
7) Consider an uncharged solid conducting sphere placed in an external uniform electric field E0.
Determine the surface charge density as the function of polar angle measured with
θ
respect to the direction of external electric field. Use logic of problem (6) to solve this.

8) A thin disc of radius is given charge , uniformly distributed over it. Determine the work required
to double the radius of the disc. Ignore all forces except electrostatic.
9) Charge placed at distance from an uncharged conducting sphere of radius . The potential
of the sphere is kept constant at .
a) Determine the value and location of image charges.
b) Determine the force of interaction between the charge and the sphere.

10) A thin of radius carries charge . The ring is oriented parallel to an infinite conducting plane and is
separated by distance from it. Determine
a) The surface charge density at the point of the plane symmetrical with respect to the ring
b) The electric field strength and potential at the center of the ring.

11) A point charge is placed at distance from the center of an uncharged conducting spherical
shell with inner radius and outer radius . Determine the potential at .

12) Five thin conducting plates are placed very close and parallel to each other. They are given charges
respectively. There is a facility for Earthing each plate with a switches etc.
which are all initially open. The switches are now closed in succession from to . Determine the
charge that flows to the ground through each of the switches after closing of all switches.

Key

qa qb qa  qb q  qb qa qb
(1) (a) , , (b) a , r  R (c) , r  a, , r  b (d) Zero (e) Only
4 a 4 b
2 2
4 R 2
4 0 r 2
4 0 r 2
4 0 r 2
outside the conductor (2) (3) (4) (7) (8) (9)

(a) . (b) (10) (a) (b)

, (11) (12)

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