Quantum Insights

Chapter 1: Electric Charges & Fields

Worksheet
Questions Based on Coulomb’s Law

1. How many electrons are there in a charge of -1 C. [NCERT]

2. If 109 electrons go out of a body in each second, then how much time it would take the body to
acquire 1C charge. [NCERT]
3. (a) Two insulated charges copper spheres A and B have their centers separated by a distance of 50 cm.
What is the mutual force of electrostatic repulsion if the charge on each is 6.5 × 10−7 C? The radii of A
and B are negligible compared to the distance of separation.

(b) What is the force of repulsion if (i) each sphere is charged double the above amount, and the
distance between them is halved; (ii) the two spheres are placed in water? (Dielectric constant of
water = 80). [NCERT]

4. Suppose the spheres A and B in question 1 have identical sizes. A third sphere of the same size but
uncharged is brought in contact with the first, then brought in contact with the second and finally
removed from both. What is the new force of repulsion between A and B? [NCERT]
5. Two similarly equally charged identical metal spheres A and B repel each other with a force of
2 × 10−5 N. A third identical uncharged sphere C is touched to A, then placed at the midpoint
between A and B. Calculate the net electrostatic force on C. [CBSE OD 03]
6. Two identical charges, Q each, are kept at a distance r from each other. A third charges q is placed on
line joining the above two charges such that all the three charges are in equilibrium. What is the
magnitude, sign and position of the charge q? [CBSE OD 98]
7. Two point charges of charge values Q and q are placed at distance x and x/2 respectively from a third
charge of charge value 4q, all charges being in the same straight line. Calculate the magnitude and
nature of charge Q such that the net force experienced by the charge q is zero. [CBSE D 98]
8. Consider the charges q, q and -q placed at the
vertices of an equilateral triangle, as shown in
figure. What is the force on each charge?
[NCERT]

9. Three-point charges of +2 𝜇𝐶, −3𝜇𝐶 and

−3𝜇𝐶 are kept at the vertices A, B and C
respectively of an equilateral triangle of side 20
cm as shown in the figure. What should be the
sign and magnitude of the charge to be placed
at the midpoint (M) of side BC so that the charge
at A remains in equilibrium? [CBSE D 05]
10. Consider three charges 𝑞1 , 𝑞2 , 𝑞3 each equal to q at the vertices of an equilateral of slide 𝑙. What is the
force on a charge Q (with the same sign as 𝑞) placed at the centroid of the triangle? [NCERT]
11. Three point charges +q each are kept at the vertices of an equilateral triangle of side ‘𝑙’. Determine the
magnitude and sign of the charge to be kept at its centroid so that the charges at the vertices remain in
equilibrium. [CBSE F 2015]

Questions Based on Electric Field

12. An electron moves a distance of 6 cm when accelerated from rest by an electric field of strength
2 × 104 𝑁𝐶 −1 . Calculate the time of travel. The mass and charge of electron are 9 × 10−31 𝑘𝑔 and
1.6 × 10−19 𝐶 respectively. [CBSE D 91]
13. An electron falls through a distance of 1.5 cm in a uniform electric field of magnitude 2 × 104 𝑁𝐶 −1 as
shown in the figure. The direction of the field is reversed keeping its magnitude unchanged and a
proton falls though the same distance as shown in the right hand side figure. Compute the time of fall
in each case. Contrast the situation (a) with that of free fall under gravity.
14. A charged particle, of charge 2 𝜇𝐶 and mass 10 milligram, moving with a velocity of 1000 m/s enters a
uniform electric field of strength 103 𝑁𝐶 −1 directed perpendicular to its direction of motion. Find the
velocity and displacement, of the particle after 10 s. [CBSE SP 11]
15. Two point charges of +1𝜇𝐶 and +4𝜇𝐶 are kept 30 cm apart. How far from the +1𝜇𝐶 charge on the
line joining the two charges, will the net electric field be zero. [CBSE OD 20]
16. Two point charges 𝑞1 and 𝑞2 of 10−8 C and
−10−8 C respectively are placed 0.1m apart.
Calculate the electric fields at points A, B and C
shown in figure

17. (a) Two point charges of 3𝜇𝐶 and 4𝜇𝐶 are kep in air at (0.3m, 0) and (0, 0.3m) in x-y plane. Find the
magnitude and direction of the net electric field produced at the origin (0,0).
(b) Three point charges, 1 pC each are kept at the vertices of an equilateral triangle of side 10 cm. Find
the net electric field at the centroid of triangle. [CBSE D 24]
18. Two point charges +6q and -8q are placed at the
vertices B and C of an equilateral triangle ABC of
side as shown in figure. Obtain the expression for
(i) the magnitude and (ii) the direction of the
resultant electric field at the vertex A due to these
two charges. [CBSE OD 14]
19. A charge is distributed uniformly over a ring of radius ‘a’. Obtain an expression for the electric intensity
E at a point on the axis of the ring. Hence show that for points at large distances from the ring, it
behaves like a point charge. [CBSE D 16,20]

Questions Based on Electric Dipole

20. Two charges, one +5𝜇𝐶 and another −5𝜇𝐶 are placed 1mm apart. Calculate the dipole moment.
[CBSE OD 94]
21. Two charges ±10 𝜇𝐶 are placed 5 mm apart. Determine the electric field at (a) a point P on the axis of
the dipole 15 cm away from its center O on the side of the positive charge, (b) a point Q, 15 cm away
from O on a line passing through O and normal to the axis of the dipole. [NCERT]
22. Two identical electric dipoles are placed along the diagonals of a
square ABCD of side √2 m as shown in figure. Obtain the magnitude
and direction of the net electric field at the center O of the square.

[CBSE OD 23]
23. An electric dipole, when held at 30𝑜 with respect to a uniform electric field of 104 NC-1 experiences a
torque of 9 × 10−26 Nm. Calculate dipole moment of the dipole. [CBSE D 96]

Questions Based on Electric Flux & Gauss’s Theorem

𝑁
24. A plane surface, in shape of a square of side 1 cm, is placed in an electric field 𝐸⃗ = (100 𝐶 ) 𝑖̂ such that

the unit vector normal to the surface is given by 𝑛̂ = 0.8𝑖̂ + 0.6𝑘̂. Find the electric flux through the
surface. [CBSE D 24]

25. A cylinder is placed in a uniform electric field 𝐸⃗ with its axis parallel to the field. Show that the total
electric flux through the cylinder is zero.

26. Given a uniform electric field 𝐸⃗ = 5 × 103 𝑖̂ NC-1 find the flux of this field through a square of 10 cm on
a side whose plane is parallel to the Y-Z plane. What would be the flux through the same square if the
plane makes a 30𝑜 angle with the X-axis? [CBSE D 14]
27. The electric field components in figure are
𝐸𝑥 = 𝛼𝑥1/2, 𝐸𝑦 = 𝐸𝑧 = 0, in which 𝛼 = 800
N/Cm2. Calculate (i) the flux ∅𝐸 through the
cube and (ii) the charge within the cube.
Assume that a = 0.1m.

28. A spherical Gaussian surface encloses a charge of 8.85 × 10−8 C. (i) Calculate the electric flux passing
thought the surface. (ii) If the radius of the Gaussian surface is doubled, how would the flux change?
[CBSE D 01]