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1.
What is the force between two small charged spheres having charges
of 2×10−7C and 3×10−7C placed 30 cm apart in air?
2. The electrostatic force on a small sphere of charge 0.4μC due to another small
sphere of charge −0.8μC in air is 0.2 N.
(a) What is the distance between the two spheres?
(b) What is the force on the second sphere due to the first?
3. Check that the ratio ke2 /G memp is dimensionless. Look up a Table of

Physical Constants and determine the value of this ratio. What does the ratio
signify?
(a) Explain the meaning of the statement 'electric charge of a body is

quantised'.
(b) Why can one ignore quantisation of electric charge when dealing
with macroscopic i.e., large scale charges?
4. When a glass rod is rubbed with a silk cloth, charges appear on both. A
similar phenomenon is observed with many other pairs of bodies. Explain
how this observation is consistent with the law of conservation of charge.
5. Four point charges qA=2μC,qB=−5μC,qC=2μC, and qD=−5μCare located at

the corners of a square ABCD of side 10 cm. What is the force on a charge
of 1μC placed at the centre of the square?
6. An electrostatic field line is a continuous curve. That is, a field line cannot
have sudden breaks. Why not ?
7. 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 1.5×10−9C is placed at this point,
what is the force experienced by the test charge?
8. A system has two charges qA=2.5×10−7C and qB=−2.5×10−7C located at

point A(0,0,−15)cm and B(0,0,15)cm respectively. What are the total charge
and electric dipole moment vector of the system
9. An electric dipole with dipole moment 4×10−9C m is aligned at 30∘ with the
direction of a uniform electric field of magnitude 5×104NC−1. Calculate the
magnitude of the torque acting on the dipole.
10.A polythene piece rubbed with wool is found to have a negative charge
of 3×10−7C .
(a) Estimate the number of electrons transferred (from which to which?)
(b) Is there a transfer of mass from wool to polythene?
(a) Two insulated charged copper spheres A and B have their centres
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 each sphere is charged double the
above amount, and the distance between them is halved?
11. Figure shows tracks of three charged particles in a uniform electrostatic field.
Give the signs of the three charges. Which particle has the highest charge to
mass ratio?
12. Consider a uniform electric field E=3×103 ^i NC−1. (a) What is the flux of this
field through a square of 10 cm on a side whose plane is parallel to the yz
plane? (b) What is the flux through the same square if the normal to its plane
makes a 60o angle with the x-axis?
13. What is the net flux of the uniform electric field of exercise 1.15 through a
cube of side 20𝑐𝑚 oriented so that its faces are parallel to the coordinate
planes?
14. Careful measurement of the electric field at the surface of a black box
indicates that the net outward flux through the surface of the box
is 8.0×103Nm2/C.
(a) What is the net charge inside the box?(b) If the net outward flux through
the surface of the box were zero, could you conclude that there were no
charges inside the box? Why or Why not?
15. A point charge +10 μC is a distance 5 cm directly above the center of a square
of side 10 cm, as shown in fig. What is the magnitude of the electric flux
through the square? (Hint: Think of the square as one face of a cube with
edge 10 cm.)
16. A point charge of 2.0μC is at the centre of a cubic Gaussian surface 9.0 cm on
edge. What is the net electric flux through the surface?
17. A point charge causes an electric flux of −1.0×103 Nm2/C to pass through a
spherical Gaussian surface of 10.0 cm radius centred on the charge. (a) If the
radius of the Gaussian surface were doubled,how much flux would pass
through the surface? (b) What is the value of the point charge?
18.A conducting sphere of radius 10 𝑐𝑚 has an unknown charge. If the electric

field 20 𝑐𝑚 from the centre of the sphere is 1.5×103 𝑁/𝐶 and points radially
inward, what is the net charge on the sphere?
19. A uniformly charged conducting sphere of 2.4 m diameter has a surface

charge density of 80 μC/m2.
(a) Find the charge on the sphere.
(b) What is the total electric flux leaving the surface of the sphere?
20. An infinite line charge produces a field of 9×104N/C at a distance of 2

cm. Calculate the linear charge density.

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3. Check that the ratio ke2 /G memp is dimensionless. Look up a Table of

(a) Explain the meaning of the statement 'electric charge of a body is

5. Four point charges qA=2μC,qB=−5μC,qC=2μC, and qD=−5μCare located at

8. A system has two charges qA=2.5×10−7C and qB=−2.5×10−7C located at

18.A conducting sphere of radius 10 𝑐𝑚 has an unknown charge. If the electric

19. A uniformly charged conducting sphere of 2.4 m diameter has a surface

20. An infinite line charge produces a field of 9×104N/C at a distance of 2

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