Electric Charges and Fields

(1+2+3=8)
For: PU Board
1 Marks
1. Write the SI unit of charge. (2014,2015)
2. State Coulombs law. (2015, 2017, 2019)
3. A Charged particle enters an electric field in the direction of electric field. What is the
nature of the path traced by it? (2015)
4. Write the SI unit of Electric field. (2016)
5. How does the electrostatic force between two-point charges change, when a dielectric
medium is introduced between them? (2017s)
6. Write the SI unit of electric flux. (2020)

2 Marks
1. State and explain Coulombs law in electrostatics. (2014,2020,2021m)
2. Write Coulombs law in vector form. Explain the terms. (2015)
3. Write any two properties of electric field lines. (2015, 2017)
4. State and explain Gauss’s law in electrostatics. (2017s)
5. Sketch the electric lines of force due to a point charge q. if (2016)
i) q<0 ii) q>0
6. Write any two basic properties of charge (2019)
7. What is electric dipole? Write is SI unit. (2021m)

3 Marks
8. Mention any three properties of electric charges. (2014 ,2021m)
9. Write any three properties of electric field lines. (2018s,2019s 2021m)

5 Marks
1. State Gauss law in electrostatics.
Using the law derive an expression for electric field due to uniformly charged thin
spherical shell at a point outside the shell. (2014,2018s)
2. Derive an expression for electric field due electric dipole at a point on an equatorial
line. (2015,2019s,2021m)
3. State Gauss law in electrostatics. Derive the expression for electric field at a point due
to an infinitely long charged straight conductor using Gauss’s law.(2015,2016s,2021m)
4. Derive an expression for electric field due to an electric dipole at a point on the axial
line. (2016,2017s)
5. Two-point charges qa = 3𝜇 c and qb=-3𝜇c are located 20cm 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 1.5×10-9 C is placed at this point. What is the
force experienced by the test charge? (2017)
6. State Gauss’s law. Derive an expression for electric intensity at a point outside the
uniformly charged shell.
7. Three charges each equal to +4nC are placed at the three corners of a square of side
2cm. Find the electric filed at the fourth corner. (2018)

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 Electric Charges and Fields
(1+2+3=8)
For: PU Board
10. Two-point charges qA = 5𝜇C and qB = -5𝜇C are located at A and B separated by 0.2
m in vacuum. (2020)
a) What is the electric field at the midpoint O of the line joining the charges?
b) If a negative test charge of magnitude 2 nC is placed at O, what is the force
experienced by the test charge?

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