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SUBJECT : Physics I-MID TERM EXAMINATION - 2021 MAX MARKS : 35

CLASS : XII DURATION: 90Min

SECTION – A
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1. Two point–charges are a distance apart. If the distance is reduced to 7 th of its original
value, then what must be the relative permittivity of material that may fill the region
between the charges with no change in the force overall?

(OR)

What are the SI unit and the dimensional formula of the quantity Absolute
permittivity?

2. A point –charge ‘q’ is placed at the center of a cube. What is the total flux linked with
three faces of the cube that share a corner?

3. Name the quantity that has the SI unit joules per coulomb. Specify if it is a scalar or
vector.

4. How may a single piece of conductor be considered as a “capacitor’?

5. Electric potential due to a uniformly charged thin ring with charge ‘q’ and radius ‘a’, at
kq
its center is a . What is the field intensity at the point?

SECTION – B
6. Write the relation between field and potential. Hence, explain why potential
decreases in the direction of field.

7. Four thin, metallic plates are placed close and parallel to each other. If the charges on
the plates were-3µc, 0,+7µc and 8µc, then find the charges appearing on the eight
surfaces.

8. Torque acting on a dipole aligned at an angle 60o with the field is ‘  ’. Find the work
done in rotating the dipole from stable equilibrium position to the 60o position.

9. a) Define polarization as a vector quantity.

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b) A slab of dielectric constant 7 is placed in a uniform eclectic field ‘E’. What is the
induced electric field in the slab?

(OR)

Write the properties of the equipotential surfaces. (at least two)

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SECTION – C
10. A capacitor of capacitance ’C’ is connected to a p.d source ‘V’. Find the energy stored
in it. Draw the energy versus ‘V’ graph.

(OR)

A capacitor ‘C’ charged to a potential ‘v’ is connected to an uncharged identical

capacitor. Find

(i) .Initial and final energies of the system.

(ii) .Fraction of the initial energy lost during the process.

11. A charge ‘q’ is at the center of a cylindrical surface. The flux linked with one of its flat
q
surfaces is 6E0 . Another charge ‘q’ is at one of the corners of a cube. Find the ratio of
fluxes linked with “curved surface of the cylinder” and “a face of the cube not
containing the charge’’ show your working.

12.

Two concentric metal spheres are of radii r1 and r2 as shown. The charges on the inner
and outer spheres are 2µc and 4µc.

a) What is the ratio of charges on the outer surfaces of the inner and outer spheres?

b) If the two spheres are connected by a wire for sufficient time, how much charge
moves from the inner to outer sphere?

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A piece of iron Fe26 weighing 210g, loses 0.02% if its electrons. What is the charge
acquired by the iron piece?

14. a) State Gauss theorem of electrostatics. (1 m)

b) Using it, obtain the expression for electric field due to a point charge ‘q’ at a
distance ‘r’ from it. (2.5 m)

c) Hence, derive Coulomb’s law. (1.5 m)

(OR)

a) Derive the expression for the torque experienced by a dipole of dipole moment ‘p’
aligned at an angle ‘  ’ with the field ‘E’. Write its vector form. (2 m)

b) Find the work done in rotating the dipole from angular position  1 to  2 . (2 m )

c) What is the potential energy of the dipole in terms of ‘  ’? (1 m)

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15. Obtain the expression for potential due to a short dipole of moment ‘p’ at a point ‘r’
distance away from the dipole center such that ‘r’ line makes an angle ‘  ’ with the
dipole axis.

(OR)

a) Two metal plates of area ‘A’ are placed a distance ‘d’ from each other. Find the
capacitance of this parallel plate capacitor. (3 m)

b) A dielectric slab of area ‘A’, thickness ‘t’ (<d) is inserted parallel between the plates.
If its dielectric constant is ‘K’. Find the capacitance of the system. (2 m)

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