ASSIGNMENT FOR CHAPTER#12

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1. What is electrostatics ?
2. What is the least possible charge on body can be ?
3. How many electron are present in one coulomb ?
4. Does coulomb’s law of electric force obey Newton’s third law?
5. What is central force , Is electric force between two charges a central force ?
6. Define dielectric constant for a medium in terms of force between electric charges ?
7. When you run comb through dry hair, it attracts bits of paper. Why? What would you except if the
hair is wet ?
8. Two points charges of +2uC and +6uC repel each other with a force of 12N. if each is given an
additional charge of -4uC, What will be the new force ?
9. Three charges each of 1uC are placed at the corners of an equilateral triangle. If the force between
any two charge be F,what will the net force on each chages?
10. Define an electron volt and find its relation with joule.
11. The potential is constant throughout a given region of space. Is the electric field zero or non zero in
this region? Explain

12. Describe the force or forces on a positive point charge when placed between parallel plates:
i. With similar and equal charges

ii. With opposite and equal charges

13. Do electrons tends to go to region of high potential or of low potential?
14. Find the electric field strength required to hold suspended a particle of mass 1x10-6 kg and charge of
1uC between two plates 10.0 cm apart. [9.8 N/C]
15. Why the test charge should be small as possible ?
16. Why two electric field lines can never intersect ?
17. Two positive point charges of equal magnitude are placed at a certain distance the point where
electric field becomes zero ?
18. A particle having a charge of 20 electrons on it falls through a potential difference of 100 volts.
Calculate the energy acquired by it in electron volts (eV).

19. A proton placed in a uniform electric field of 5000 NC-1 directed to right is allowed to go a distance
of 10.0 cm from A to B. Calculate
(a) Potential difference between the two points

(b) Work done by the field

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(c) The change in P.E. of proton

(d) The change in K.E. of the proton

(e) Its velocity

20. Repulsion is the sure test for electrification. Explain?
21. How will you give permanent positive charge to a conductor by induction ?
22. Find the force in free space between two like point charge of one coulomb each placed 1 m apart [
Ans: 9x109 N]
23. Two point charges of +9q and q are separated by a distance of 16cm . At what point between these
charges should a third charge Q be placed so that it remains in equilibrium
[12cm from +9q]
24. Charges of +2µC , +3µC and -8uC are placed at the vertices of an equilateral triangle of side 10cm.
calculate the magnitude of force acting on -8uC charge due to other two charges
[31.4N]

25. An air filled parallel plate capacitor has a capacitance of 1.3 pF . The separation of plates is doubld ,
and a dielectric is inserted between them. The new capacticance becmoens 2.6pF . find the dielectric
constant ?
26. A parallel plates air filled capacitor has capacitance of 50pF (a) if each of its plates has an area of
0.35m2 , what is the speration ? (b)if the region between the plates is now filled with material having
dielectric constant of 5.6 what is new capacitance ?
27. The battery is connected to a capacitor while a dielectric slab is being introduced then what effect on :
(a) The capacitance (b) the charge on capacitor (c) the voltage across the plates
28. A parallel plate capacitor has plates of area of 0.12m2 and a separation of 1.2cm . a dielectric slab of
thick ness 0.4cm and dielectric constant 4.8 is then placed between plates find the new capacitance ?
29. Four capacitor having equal capacitance connected in series across 30Volt battery and mid point of
these is grounded then the potential at the end of group is ?
30. What is working principle of capacitance ? what is effect of presence of dielectric plates
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