Assignment No: 1/ Electrostatics

1. What is the difference between conduction and induction of charges?

2. light is incident on the metal surface. Find the nature of charge developed.

3. Write any three characteristics of the electric field line.

4. Draw electric field lines for i) charge q> 0 ii) charge q < 0 iii) electric dipole iv) two point

charge with same sign and magnitude v) two point charges with unequal magnitude and vi)

uniform electric field.

5. What is the nature of the charge on the body when it has lost electrons?

6. Calculate the number of the electrons lost when the body has charge of 20µC?

7. Two charges of +20µC and -20µC are separated by the distance of 30cm. What is the value

of the net electric field at the centre of the two charges? What will be the field at the point

which at 60cm on the

8. Two identical spheres A and B separated by 1m are charged with 12 µC and 9 µC

respectively. A third identical uncharged sphere C is first touched with A and then with B

and afterwards moved away. What is the electrostatic force between A and B ?

9. A charged rod attracts bits of dry cork dust, which, after touching the rod, often jump

violently away from it. Explain.

10. A charge q1 exerts a force F on another charge q2.. A third charge q is brought nearer to

them. What is the electrical force between charges q1 & q2 now?

11. Two charges Q1 and Q2 are separated by 6 cm. An electron at 2 cm from Q1 in between

them experiences no force. If Q1 = 10 µC then what is the value of Q2 ?

12. An electric dipole of ± 2 e is placed in a uniform electric fields of 2 x 1010 N/c. What is the

electrical force on dipole ?

13. Calculate the value of torque on the electric dipole in the uniform electric field.

14. State Coulomb’s law in vector form.

15. An electric dipole of length 10 cm having charges ± 6×10-3 C, placed at 300 with respect to

a uniform electric field experiences a torque of 6√3 N-m. Calculate

i. magnitude of electric field ii. the potential energy of the dipole.

16. What is the value of electric field intensity inside a metallic conductor?

17. What is the direction of electric field intensity at a point on equatorial line of dipole and on

the axis of dipole?

18. An electric dipole, experiences a torque of 24x10-26 Nm. When it is placed 300 w.r.t a

uniform electric field of strength 6x104 NC-1. Calculate the dipole moment of the dipole?

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