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Subject- physics chapter 1 Electric charge and Field By; Keshav sir

Assignment-1 Previous year questions

1.A free pith-ball A of 8 g carries a positive charge of 5x10^8 C. What must be the nature and magnitude of charge that
should be given to a second pith-ball B fixed 5 cm below the former ball so that the upper ball is stationary?
2.Two point charges + 4e and + e are 'fixed' a distance 'a' apart. Where should a third point charge q be placed on the
line joining the two charges so that it may be in equilibrium ? In which case the equilibrium will be stable and in which
unstable ?
3.Calculate coulomb force between two a-particles separated by a distance of 3.2 x 10-15 m in air.
4.Consider three charges q1, q2, q3 each equal to q at the vertices of an equilateral triangle of side l . What is the force
on a charge Q (with the same sign as q) placed at the centroid of the triangle ?
5.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.
6.Four equal point charges, each 16 µC are placed on the four corners of a square of side 0.2 m. Calculate the force on
any one of the charges.
7.Two point charges A and B of magnitude 8x 10 ^ - 6 C and - 8x10 ^ - 6 C respectively are placed at a distance d apart.
The electric field at the middle point O between the charges is 6.4 x 10 ^ 4 N/C. Find the distance 'd' between the point
charges A and B.
8.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?
9.Two point charges of + 16 µC and – 9 µC are m, which are placed 8 cm apart in air. Determine the position of the point
at which the resultant field is zero.
10.Two point charges q₁ = + 0.2 C and = +0.4 C field at are placed 0.1 m apart. Calculate the electric field
(a) the midpoint between the charges.
(b) a point on the line joining q₁ and q₂ such that it is 0.05 m away from q₂ and 0.15 m away from q1.
11.ABCD is a square of side 5 m. Charges of +50 C, -50 C and + 50 C are placed at A, C and D respectively. Find the
resultant electric field at B.
12.Two point charges q₁ and q2 of 10 ^ - 8 C and -10^ -8 C respectively are placed 0.1 m apart. Calculate the electric
fields at points A, B and C shown in Fig.
13.Two point charges +6q and -8q are placed at the vertices 'B' and 'C' of an equilateral triangle ABC of
side 'a' . 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.

14.Two identical electric dipoles are placed along the diagonals of a square ABCD of side √2 m). Obtain
the magnitude and direction of the net electric field at the center O of the square.

15.Two identical dipoles are arranged in the x-y plane . Find the magnitude and the direction of the net
electric field at the origin O.
16.An electric dipole is placed at an angle of 60° with an electric field of magnitude 4×10^ 5 N/C. It experiences a torque
of 8√3 Nm. If the length of the dipole is 4 cm, determine the magnitude of either charge of the dipole.

17. The electric field components in Fig. 1.88 are E = 𝛂x ^ (1/2), Ey = Ez = 0 in which 𝛂= 800
N/Cm². Calculate (i) the flux through the cube and (ii) the charge within the cube. Assume that a
= 0.3 m

18.If E =6i +3 j +4k , calculate the electric flux through a surface of area 20 units in the Y-Z plane.

19.An electric field is uniform, and in the positive x direction for positive x and uniform with the same magnitude in the
negative x direction for negative x. It is given that

E = 200 i NC-1 for x>0 E = -200i NC-¹ for x <0.

and A right circular cylinder of length 20 cm and radius 5 cm has its center at the origin and its axis along the x-axis so
that one face is at x = + 10cm and the other is at x = -10 сm.

(i) What is the net outward flux through each flat face?
(ii) What is the flux through the side of the cylinder ?
(iii) What is the net outward flux through the cylinder?
(iv) What is the net charge inside the cylinder ?

20.Two large, thin metal plates are parallel and close to each other. On their inner faces, the plates have surface charge
densities of opposite signs and of magnitude 17.7×10^-22 C/m². What is electric field intensity E

(a) in the outer region of the first plate, and. (b) between the plates ?

21.Consider a uniform electric field E = 3×10^3 i N/C

Calculate the flux of this field through a square surface of area 10 cm² when
(i) its plane is parallel to the y-z plane, and
(ii) the normal to its plane makes a 60° angle with the x-axis.

22.Given a uniform electric field E = 5x10^2 N/C. 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 30° angle with
the X-axis ?

23.A hollow cylindrical box of length 1 m and area of cross-section 25 cm² is placed in a three dimen-
sional coordinate system as shown in Fig. 1.94. The electric field in the region is given by E = (50x) i ,
where E is in N/C and x is in meters.
Find
(i) net flux through the cylinder,
(ii) charge enclosed by the cylinder

24.Two point charges, q₁ and q₂ are located at points (a,0,0) and (0, b, 0) respectively. Find the electric field, due to
both these charges, at the point (0,0, c)

25.If the distance between two equal points by charges is doubled and their individual
charges are also doubled, what would happen to the force between them?

26.Two small identical electrical dipoles AB and CD, each of dipole moments are kept at an
angle of 120° to each other in an external electric field E pointing along the x-axis as shown
in Fig. 1.122
27.Five point charges, each of value + q coulomb, are placed on five vertices of a regular
hexagon of side L meters. Find the magnitude of force on a charge - q coulomb placed at the center of the hexagon.

28.Four particles, each having a charge q, are placed on the vertices of a regular pentagon. The distance of each corner
from the center is 'a'. Determine the electric field at the center of the pentagon.

29.Four point charges qA = 2 μC, qB = -6 μC, qC= 2 μC,qD = -6 µC are located at the corners of a square ABCD of side
10 cm. What is the force on a charge of 1 µC placed at the centre of the square.

30.A particle of charge 2 µC and mass 1.6 g is moving with a velocity 4ims¯¹. At t = 0 the particle enters in a region
having an electric field Ē (in N C¯¹) = 80i+60j. Find the velocity of the particle at t = 5 s.
31.Two point charges of +1 µC and +4 µC are kept 30 cm apart. How far from the + 1 µC charge on the line joining the
two charges, will the net electric field be zero?

32.Two identical point charges, q each, are kept 2 m apart in air. A third point charge Q of unknown magnitude and sign
is placed on the line joining the charges such that the system remains in equilibrium. Find the position
and nature of Q.

33.Four objects W, X, Y and Z each with charge +q are held fixed at - four points of a square of side d
as shown in the figure. Objects X and Z are on the midpoints of the sides of the square. The
electrostatic force exerted by object W on object X is F. Then the magnitude of the force exerted by
object W on Z is.
34.Given a uniform electric field E = 5×103 ÎN/C. 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 30° angle with
the x-axis?
35.What is the flux due to electric field E=3x10³ÎN/C through a square of side 10 cm, when it is held normal to Ē?
Consider a uniform electric field E=3x10³ÎN/C. Calculate the flux of this field through a square surface of area 10 cm²
when
(i) its plane is parallel to the y-z plane
(ii) the normal to its plane makes a 60° angle with the x-axis

36.Two small identical electric dipoles AB and CD, each T of dipole moment, are kept at an angle of
120° to each other in an external electric field È pointing along the x-axis as shown in the figure. Find
the
( a) dipole moment of the arrangement, and.
(b) magnitude and direction of the net torque acting on it

37.Two charges of magnitudes -2Q and +Q are located at points (a, 0) and (4a, 0) respectively. What
is the electric flux due to these charges through a sphere of radius '3a' with its centre at the origin?

39.A point charge q is at a distance of d/2 directly above the centre of a square of side d, as shown in the figure. Use
Gauss's law to obtain the expression for the electric flux through the square.
(b) If the point charge is now moved to a distance 'd' from the centre of the square and the side of the square is doubled,
explain how the electric flux will be affected.

40.Consider two hollow concentric spheres S₁ and S2, enclosing charges 2Q and 4Q respectively as shown in figure.
(i) Find out the ratio of the electric flux through them.

(ii) How will the electric flux through the sphere S₁ change if a medium of dielectric constant 'e,' is
introduced in the space inside S₁ in place of air? Deduce the necessary expression.

41.Two identical point charges Q are kept at a distance r from each other. A third point charge is placed
on the line joining the above two charges such that all the three charges are in equilibrium. What is the magnitude, sign
and position of the third charge?

42.The sum of two point charges is 7 µC. They repel each other with a force of 1 N when kept 30 cm apart in free space.
Calculate the value of each charge.

43. An An electrical dipole of dipole moment 4 × 10-⁵C-m, kept in a uniform electric field of 10-³ NC-¹, experiences a
torque of 2 × 10-⁸ Nm. The angle which the dipole makes with the electric field is?

44.Given a uniform electric field E=5×10³ i N/C, 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 30° angle with the x-
axis?

45.Two point charges + 16q and - 4q are located at x = 0 and x = L. The location of the point on x-axis at which the
resultant electric field due to these charges is zero, is?