Sunbeam School Mughalsarai

ASSIGNMENT
Class 12 - Physics
Time Allowed: 30 minutes
Maximum Marks: 20

1. A hollow charged conductor has a tiny hole cut into its surface. Show that the electric field in the hole is ( σ

2ε0
) n̂ where
n̂ is the unit vector in the outward normal direction and σ is the surface charge density near the hole.
2. A point charge +10μC is a distance 5 cm directly above the center of a square of side 10 cm, as shown in figure. What
is the magnitude of the electric flux through the square? (Hint: Think of the square as one face of a cube with edge 10
cm)

3. An electric dipole of dipole moment p is placed in a uniform electric field E. Obtain the expression for the torque τ
experienced by the dipole. Identify two pairs of perpendicular vectors in the expression.
4. S1 and S2 are two hollow concentric spheres enclosing charges 2Q and 4Q respectively as shown in the figure.

i. What is the ratio of electric flux through S1 and S2 ?

ii. How will the electric flux through the sphere S1 change, if a medium of dielectric constant 6 is introduced in the
space inside S1 in the place of air?

5. a. Define electric flux. Write its SI unit.

b. Using Gauss' law, prove that the electric field at a point due to a uniformly charged infinite plane sheet is independent
of distance from it.
c. How is the field directed if
i. the sheet is positively charged?
ii. negatively charged?
6. Consider a cube of side a = 0.1 m placed such that its six faces are given by the equations x = 0, x = +a, y = 0, y = +a, z =
0 and z = +a. It is placed in an electric field given by E⃗ = (x
2^ ^
i + yj ) N/C. If the net electric flux crossing out of the

cube is 11 × 10-x N-m2/C, then what is the value of x?

7. Electrical force between two point charges is 200 N. If we increase 10% charge on one of the charges and decrease 10%
charge on the other, then electrical force between them for the same distance becomes:
8. A particle of mass 2g and charge 1μC is held at a distance of 1m from a fixed charge 1mC. If the particle is released it
will be repelled. The speed of particle when it is at a distance of 10 metre from the fixed charge, is(m/sec)
q1
9. If q1 + q2 = q, then the value of the ratio q
, for which the force between q1 and q2 is maximum is:

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10. The work of electric field done during the displacement of a negatively charged particle towards a fixed positively
charged particle is 9 J. As a result the distance between the charges has been decreased by half. What work is done by
the electric field over the first half of this distance?

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