SRI JAYENDRA SARASWATHY VIDYALAYA SCHOOL

MONTHLY TEST – JULY, 2022

PHYSICS
Date: 25.07.2022 Duration: 1 ½ hour
CLASS: XII Total Marks: 35
SECTION A: (10 x 1m= 10 marks)
1. A point charge +q are placed at a distance d from an isolated conducting plane. The field at a
point P on the other side of the plane is
(a) directed perpendicular to the plane and away from the plane
(b) directed perpendicular to the plane but towards the plane
(c) directed radially away from the point charge
(d) directed radially towards the point charge
2. An electric dipole placed in a non-uniform electric field can experience
(a) a force but not a torque (b) a torque but not a force
(c) always a force and a torque (d) neither a force nor a torque
3. A capacitor is charged by a battery. The battery is removed and another identical uncharged
capacitor is connected in parallel. The total electrostatic energy of resulting system
(a) increases by a factor of 4. (b) decreases by a factor of 2.
(c) remains the same. (d) increases by a factor of 2.
4. SI unit of permittivity of free space is
(a) Farad (b) Weber (c) C2N-1 m-2 (d) Nm2C-2
5. Equivalent Capacitance between A and B is

(a) 8μF (b) 6 μF (c) 26μF (d) 10/3μF

ASSERTION AND REASONING:
Directions (Q.no : 6& 7) In the following questions, a statement of Assertion is followed by a
corresponding statement of Reason. Make the correct choice as:
a) Both Assertion and Reason are correct and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion.
b) Both Assertion and Reason are correct but Reason is not the correct explanation of Assertion.
c) Assertion is correct but Reason is incorrect.
d) Assertion is incorrect but Reason is correct.
6. Assertion: For a point charge, concentric spheres centred at a location of the charge are
equipotential surfaces.
Reason: An Equipotential surface is a surface over which potential has zero value.
7. Assertion: The potential difference between any two points in an electric field depends only on
initial and final position.
Reason: Electric field is a conservative field so the work done per unit positive charge does not
depend on path followed.
8. Assertion: When charges are shared between any two bodies no charges is really lost but
some loss of energy occurs.
Reason: Some of the energy is dissipated in the form of heat, sparkling etc.

9. Assertion: All the charge in a conductor gets distributed on whole of its outer surface.
Reason: In a dynamic system, charges try to keep their potential energy minimum.
10. Assertion: Electric potential and electric potential energy are different quantities.
Reason: For a system of positive test charge and point charge electric potential energy is
equal to electric potential.
 SECTION B: (3 x 2m = 6 marks)
11. A point charge of 2.0 micro coulomb is at the centre of a cubic Gaussian surface 9.0 cm on edge.
What is the net electric flux through the surface?
12. A spherical conductor of radius 12 cm has a charge of 1.6x10 -7C distributed uniformly on its
surface. What is the electric field (a) inside the sphere (b) just outside the sphere?
13. Sketch a graph to show the dependence of a charge Q stored in a capacitor on the potential
difference V applied. From the graph drawn how will you calculate the capacitance C of the
capacitor and the energy U stored in the capacitor?
OR
Draw a plot showing variation of electric field with distance from the centre of a solid conducting
sphere of radius R, having a charge of +Q on its surface. 

SECTION C: (3 x 3m = 9 marks)

14. Two charges 5x10-8C and -3x10-8C are located 16 cm apart. At what point(s) on the line
joining the two charges is the electric potential zero? Take the potential at infinity to be zero.
15. A spherical capacitor consists of two concentric spherical conductors, held in position
by suitable insulating supports below

Show that the capacitance of a spherical capacitor is given by where   

and   are the radii of outer and inner spheres, respectively.
OR
A spherical conducting shell of inner radius  and outer radius  has a charge
1. A charge q is placed at the centre of the shell. What is the surface charge density on the
inner and outer surfaces of the shell?
2. Is the electric field inside a cavity (with no charge) zero, even if the shell is not
spherical, but has any irregular shape? Explain.
16. A uniformly charged conducting sphere of 2.4 m diameter has a surface charge density of
80.0μC/m2.
(a) Find the charge on the sphere.
(b) What is the total electric flux leaving the surface of the sphere?

SECTION D: (1 x 5m = 5 marks)
17. A 4µF capacitor is charged by a 200 V supply. It is then disconnected from the supply and is
connected to another uncharged 2pF capacitor. How much electrostatic energy of the first
capacitor is lost in the form of heat and electromagnetic radiation?
OR
Four charges are arranged at the corners of a square ABCD of side d, as shown in Fig.

(a)Find the work required to put together this arrangement.

(b) A charge q0 is brought to the center E of the square, the four charges
being held fixed at the corners. How much extra work in needed to do
this?

18. When an insulator is placed in an external field, the dipoles become aligned. Induced
surface charges on the insulator establish a polarization field E⃗ iE→i in its interior. The
net field E⃗ E→ in the insulator is the vector sum of E⃗ 0E→0 and E⃗ iE→i as shown in
the figure.

On the application of external electric field, the effect of aligning the electric dipoles in
the insulator is called polarisation and the field E⃗ iE→i is known as the polarisation field.
The dipole moment per unit volume of the dielectric is known as polarisation (P⃗ )(P→).
For linear isotropic dielectrics, P⃗ =χE⃗ P→=χE→ where X= electrical susceptibility of the
dielectric medium.

OR
Two charges ±10 μC are placed 5.0 mm apart. Determine the electric field at a point P on the
axis of the dipole15 cm away from its centre O on the side of the positive charge, a point Q,
and 15 cm away from O on a line passing through O and normal to the axis of the dipole.