CHAPTER 1: ELECTRIC CHARGES AND FIELDS Grade 12

ASSIGNMENT #2
Submission Date: Thursday, 28 April 2022

MCQs
Directions (Q1-Q4)
Select the most appropriate option from those given below each question:
1. Figure shows electric field lines in which an electric dipole p is placed as
shown.

Which of the following statements is correct?

(a) The dipole will not experience any force.
(b) The dipole will experience a force towards right.
(c) The dipole will experience a force towards left.
(d) The dipole will experience a force upwards.

2. Free electrons in an electric field travel

(a) From region of higher potential to a region of lower potential

(b) From region of lower potential to a region of higher potential
(c) From one point to another, and is independent of the potential
(d) From a region of positive potential to a region of negative potential

3. Five charges, q each are placed at the corners of a regular pentagon of side
‘a’ as shown in the figure below. What will be the electric field at O, the
centre of the pentagon?

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 (a) 5Q/4πεor2
(b) Zero
(c) Q/4πεor2
(d) -2 N/C

4. Which of the following statements is incorrect?

(a) The SI unit of Electric field is V/m.

(b) When a closed surface is placed in an electric field, the number of field
lines entering the surface is equal to the number of field lines exiting the
surface.
(c) Quantisation of charges can be mathematically written as Q =ne
(d) Electric Flux is a vector quantity

SHORT AND LONG ANSWER QUESTIONS

Directions (Q05 –Q15)- Answer the following questions

5. Two point charges of charge values Q and q are placed at distances x and x/2
respectively from a third charge value 4q, all charges being in the same straight
line. Calculate the magnitude and nature of charge Q, such that the net force
experienced by the charge q is zero.

6. Two identical charges, Q each are kept at a distance r from each other. A third
charge q is placed on the line joining the above two charges such that all the
three charges are in equilibrium. What is the magnitude, sign and position of the
charge q?

7. Two point charges, each of 5μC but opposite in sign are placed 4 cm apart.
Calculate the electric field intensity at a point distant 4 cm from the midpoint on
the axial line of the dipole.

8. If E = 6i +3J +4k, calculate the electric flux through a surface of area 20 units in
Y-Z plane.

9. The electric field components in the figure given are Ex = αx1/2, Ey = Ez = 0, in

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 which α = 800 N/C m1/2. Calculate (a) the flux through the cube, and (b) the
charge within the cube. Assume that a = 0.1 m.

10. A conducting sphere of radius 10 cm has an unknown charge. If the electric field
20 cm from the centre of the sphere is 1.5 × 103 N/C and points radially inward,
what is the net charge on the sphere?

11. Plot a graph showing the variation of coulomb force (F) versus (1/r 2), where r is
the distance between the two charges of each pair of charges: (1µC, 2µC) and (2µC,
-3µC). Interpret the graphs obtained.

12. Five point charges, each of value +q coulomb are placed on five vertices of a regular
hexagon of side L metres. Find the magnitude of force on a charge –q coulomb
placed at the centre of the hexagon.

13. Two point charges q1 and q2 are located at points (a,0,0) and (0,b,0) respectively.
Find the electric field due to both these charges at the point (0,0,c).

14. Four point charges are placed at the four corners of a square in the two ways (i)
and (ii) as shown in fig. Will the electric field at the centre of the square be the
same or different in the two configurations and why?

15. Two dipoles made from charges ±q and ±Q respectively, have equal dipole
moments. Give the (i) ratio between the separations of these two pairs of charges
(ii) angle between the dipole axes of these two dipoles.

WORKING HARD is important!!

But there is something that matters even more…….

BELIEVING IN YOURSELF

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