BLUEBELLS SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL

CLASS ASSIGNMENT
Class: XII

Electrostatics1 DATE:

1. What does q1 + q2 = 0 signify in electrostatics?

2. What kind of charge is produced on each when (i) a glass rod is rubbed with silk and (ii)
ebonite rod is rubbed with wool?
3. Mention any three basic properties of electric charges.
4. Electric charge is quantized. What is meant by this statement?

5. State Coulomb’s law of electrostatic force in vector form.

6. Define the term Dielectric constant.

7. Write the dimensional formula for ε0?

8. Dielectric constant of a medium is unity. What will be its permittivity?

9. Force of attraction between two point electric charges placed at a distance d in a medium
is F. What distance apart should these kept in the same medium so that force between
them becomes F/3?
10.State superposition principle.

11.Which physical quantity has unit newton-coulomb-1?

12. Draw electrostatic field lines for an isolated positive point charge +Q and point
negative charge –Q.
13. Why is electric field intensity inside a charged conductor zero?
14. What is the net force on a dipole in a uniform electric field?
15. When is an electric dipole in stable and unstable equilibrium in an electric field?
16. What is the nature of symmetry of field due to point charge?
17. Define the term electric dipole moment? Is it a scalar or vector?
18. Find the amount of work done in rotating an electric dipole of dipole moment p from its

position of stable equilibrium to the position of unstable equilibrium.

19. Two point charges +20 µC and +80 µC are placed18cm apart. Find the position of the
point where the electric field is zero.
20. Calculate the electric dipole moment of an electron and a proton 4.30 mm apart.
 HOME ASSIGNMENT

1. Three charges 10µC, 5µC and –5µC are placed in air at the three corners A, B and C of an
equilateral triangle of side 0.1m.Find the resultant force experienced by charge placed at the
corner A. (45N)
2. Four point charges qA = 2µC, qB = –5µC, qC = 2 µC and qD = –5µC are located at the corners of
a square ABCD of side 10cm. What is the force on charge of 1µC placed at the centre of the square

3. Two point charges Q and q are placed at a distance x and x/2 respectively from a third charge
4q, all charges being in the same straight line. Calculate the magnitude and nature of charge Q
such that net force experienced by the charge q is zero. (Q=4q)
4. Two small sphere each of mass m kg and charge q coulomb are suspended from a point by
insulating thread each of length l metre but of negligible mass. If θ is the angle which each
string makes with the vertical when equilibrium has been reached, show that
q2 = 4mg l2sin2 θ tan θ (4πεo)
5 Two charges –q each are fixed separated by a distance 2d. A third charge q of mass m is placed at the
midpoint is displaced slightly by x (x<< d) perpendicular to the line joining the two charges. Show that q
will perform simple harmonic oscillation of time period, T= √(8 π 3ε0md3)/q2

6. A charge particle of mass 1g is suspended through a silk thread of length 40cm in horizontal
electric field of 4× 104N/C. If the particle stays at a distance of 24cm from the wall in equilibrium,
find the charge on the particle.
7. A charge Q is placed at a distance a/2 above the centre of a horizontal square surface of
edge a as shown in fig. Find the flux of the electric field through the square surface.

8. An electric dipole of length 4cm,when placed with its axis making an angle of 600 with the uniform

electric field, experiences a torque of 4√3Nm. Calculate the potential energy of the dipole, if it has

charge ±8nC
9. A particle of mass m and charge (–q) enters the region between the two charged plates initially
moving along x-axis with speed vx .The length of plate is L and an uniform electric field E is
maintained between the plates. Show that the vertical deflection of the particle at the far edge of
2
qEL
2
the plate is 2 mv x
10. State Gauss’s theorem in electrostatics and using this theorem derive an expression for electric field
intensity due to an infinitely long straight charged wire. A spherical Gaussian surface encloses a
charge of 8.85×10-8C a. Calculate the electric flux passing through the surface. b. If the radius of the
Gaussian surface is doubled, how would the flux change?
11. Two small identical dipoles AB and CD each dipole moment p are kept at an angle of 1200
as shown in fig. What is the resultant dipole moment of this combination? If this system is subjected to
uniform electric field E directed along + X direction, what is the magnitude and direction of torque
acting on this? -q C A +q

0 X
 B-q D +q

0.1m
12. Electric field is directed along + x direction and is given by Ex= 5Ax+2B Where A & B are constants

having dimensions. Take A=10NC-1m-1 and B=5NC-1. Calculate the electric flux through the cube
and net charge within the cube.