THE BANYAN TREE SCHOOL

WORKSHEET
CLASS: XII MONTH: APRIL’07
SUBJECT: PHYSICS TOPIC: ELECTRIC
CHARGES & FIELD

1. If two charges are located 10 cm apart, it feels an attractive force of 12 units. What will
be the force between them when they are placed 5 cm apart?
2. The dielectric constant of pure water is 81. What will be the absolute permittivity of
water?
3. Which physical quantity has unit NC-1? It is a scalar or a vector quantity?
4. What is the direction of the electric field due to an electric dipole at a point on its
(i) axial line (ii) equatorial line?
5. If the electric field is given by 6i + 3j + 4k. Calculate the electric flux through a surface
of area 20 units lying in YZ plane?
6. A hollow conducting sphere of radius 8 cm is given a charge of 16 µ C. What is the
electric field intensity (i) at the center of the sphere (ii) on the outer surface of the
sphere.
7. An electric dipole when held at 300 w.r.t a uniform electric field of 104 NC-1
experiences a torque of 8 x 10-26 Nm. Calculate the dipole moment of the dipole.
8. An electric dipole is held in a uniform electric field.
(i) Show that no translatory force acts on it.
(ii) Derive an expression for the torque acting on it.
(iii) The dipole is aligned parallel to the field. Calculate the work done in rotating
it through 1800.
9. A system has two charges qA = 2.5 x 10-7 C & qB = -2.5 x 10-7 C located at points
A : (0,0,-15 cm) & B : (0,0,+15 cm), resp. What are the total charge & electric dipole
moment of the system.
10. (a) Give two properties of electric lines of force.
(b) Sketch the electric lines of force when (i) q1q2 < 0 (ii) q > 0.
11. Two point charges of +5 x 10-19 C & +20 x 10-19 C are separated by a distance of
2 m. Find the point on the line joining them at which electric field intensity is zero.
12. Define electric field at a point. Two point charges +q & -q are placed at a distance
‘2a’ apart. Calculate the electric field at a point P situated at a distance ‘r’ along the
perpendicular bisector of the line joining the charges. What is the field when r>>a?
13. State Gauss’s theorem in electrostatics and express it mathematically. Using it, derive
an expression for electric field at a point near a thin infinite plane sheet of electric
charge. How does this electric field change for a uniformly thick sheet of charge?
14. Two opposite corners of a square carry Q charge each & the other two opposite
corners of the square carry q charge each. If the resultant force on ‘Q’ is zero, how
are Q & q related?
15. Two charges q1 = +20 x 10-6 C & q2 = -20 x 10-6 C are placed 20 cm apart at points
A & B resp. Calculate the electric field strength at point C, 20 cm away from both A
& B.