Class 12 - Half Yearly 2 – Practice Questions - Physics

1. What will happen if you bring a “Plastic rod rubbed with fur” next to a “glass rod
rubbed with silk”?
2. Formula for electric field due to a dipole on it (i) axial line and (ii) equatorial line
3. Shape of equipotential surfaces due to different charge arrangements.
4. In an electrical circuit if 100 J work is done to move 10 C electric charge from point A
to the point B, find out the potential difference between the points A and B.
5. Properties of equipotential surface.
6. Does drift velocity determines the current in a conductor?
7. Relation between drift velocity and current density.
8. Relation between the electric field intensity, current density and specific resistance .
9. State Biot-Savart’s law.
10.Will an electron projected into a magnetic field along the lines of force experience a force?
11. State Gauss theorem in electrostatics. Apply this theorem to obtain the expression for
the electric field at a point due to an infinity long, thin, uniformly charged straight

wire of linear charge density Cm . -1

12.Define electric flux. Write its SI unit.

13.Purely resistive, capacitive and inductive AC circuits.
14.Derive the expression for the magnetic field at the centre of the coil.
15.An electric dipole is held in a uniform electric field. Show that the net force acting on
it is zero. The dipole is aligned parallel to the field. Find the work done in rotating it
through the angle of 180o
16.Draw a schematic diagram of a step-up transformer. Explain its working principle.
17.An α–particle and a proton are moving in the plane of paper in a region where there is
a uniform magnetic field B directed normal to the plane of the paper. If the particles
have equal linear momenta, what would be the ratio of the radii of their trajectories in
the field?
18.Define the term ‘Mobility’ of charge carries in a conductor. Write its SI unit. What is
its relation with relaxation time?
19.Figure shows some equipotential lines distributed in space. A charged object is moved
from point A to point B.

Find the work done in Fig. (i), Fig. (ii), and Fig. (iii).
20.Define an equipotential surface.
21.Figure shows planar loops of different shapes moving out of or into a region of magnetic
field which is directed normal to the plane of loops downwards. Determine the direction of
induced current in each loop using Lenz's law.

22.Sketch the magnetic field for a circular current loop, clearly indicating the direction of
the field.
23.LCR circuits - Quality of resonance – Quality factor
24.A charge Q µC is placed at the centre of a cube. What would be the flux through one
face?
25.Why electric field line never cross each other at any point?
26.Define electric dipole moment.
27.Four point charges Q, q, Q and q are placed at the corners of a square of side ′a′ as shown in
the figure.
 Find the (a) resultant electric force on a charge Q, and (b) potential energy of this system.
28.Find an expression for the electric field strength at a distant point situated (i) on the axis and
(ii) along the equatorial line of an electric dipole.
29.A device ‘X’ is connected to an ac source V = V0 sin t. The variation of voltage,
current and power in one cycle is show in the following graph:

1.
(a) Identify the device ‘X’.
(b) Which of the curves, A, B and C represent the voltage, current and the
power consumed in the circuit? Justify your answer.
(c) How does its impedance vary with frequency of the ac source? Show
graphically.
30.What is the magnitude of magnetic force per unit length on a wire carrying a current
of 8 A and making an angle of 30° with the direction of a uniform magnetic field of
0.15 T?
31.The current flowing through a pure inductor of inductance 2 mH is i=15 cos 300 t
ampere. What is the (i) rms and (ii) average value of current for a complete cycle?
32.A circular coil of cross-sectional area 20 cm2 and 20 turns is rotated about the vertical
diameter with angular speed of 50 rad s1 in a uniform magnetic field of magnitude
3.0102 T. Calculate the maximum value of the current in the coil.
33.Draw the figure represent the electric field lines due to a single negative charge?
34.Consider a region inside which, there are various types of charges but the total charge
is zero. At outside what is the electric flux?
35.Purely resistive, capacitive and inductive AC circuits.
36.Derive the expression for the magnetic field at the centre of the coil.
37.An electric dipole is held in a uniform electric field. Show that the net force acting on
it is zero. The dipole is aligned parallel to the field. Find the work done in rotating it
through the angle of 180o
38.Draw a schematic diagram of a step-up transformer. Explain its working principle.
39.In a parallel plate capacitor, the capacitance increases from 4µF TO 80 µF on
introducing a dielectric medium. What is the dielectric constant of the medium?
40.A parallel plate capacitor having area A and separated by distance d is filled by copper
plate of thickness b. What is the new capacity?
41.Find the amount of work done in rotating a dipole from its position of unstable
equilibrium to the table equilibrium.
42.A parallel plate is charged by a battery. When the battery remains connected, a
dielectric slab is inserted in the space between the plates. Explain what changes if any,
occur in the values of (i) Potential difference between the plates (ii) Capacitance  (iii)
Charge on the plates (iv) Energy stored in the capacitor? (v) Electric field strength
between the plates
43.(i) Find equivalent capacitance between A and B in the combination give below. Each
capacitor is a of 2μF2μF capacitance.

(ii) If a dc source of 7V is connected across AB, how much charge is drawn from the
source and what is the energy stored in the network?
44.A parallel plate capacitor of capacitance C is charged to a potential V. It is then connected to
another uncharged capacitor having the same capacitance. Find out the ratio of the energy
stored in the combined system to that stored initially in the single capacitor.
45.When 5V potential difference is applied across a wire length 0.1 m, the drift speed of
electron is 2.5 ×10−4ms−1. If the electron density in the wire is 8 ×1028 m−3, calculate the
resistivity of the material.
46.Two cells of emf E1 and E2 and internal resistance r1, and r2 are connected in parallel
such that they send current in same direction. Derive an expression for equivalent
resistance and equivalent emf of the combination.
47.Kirchhoff’s rule – Related Problems.
48.Using Gauss’s law, prove that the electric field at a point due to a uniformly charged
infinite plane sheet is independent of the distance from it.
49.How is the field directed if (i) the sheet is positively charged (ii) negatively charged?
50.Draw a labelled diagram of ac generator. Derive the expression for the instantaneous
value of the emf induced in the coil
51.A straight thick long wire of uniform circular cross-section of radius ‘a’ carrying a
steady current I. The current is uniformly distributed across the cross-section. Use
Ampere’s circuital law to obtain a relation showing the variation of the magnetic field
(Br) inside and outside the wire with distance r, (r  a) and (r > a) of the field point
from the centre of its cross-section. What is the magnetic field at the surface of this
wire? Plot a graph showing the nature of this variation.
52.Classification of magnetic materials and susceptibility, permeability and related terms.
And Curie temperature.
53.A long solenoid with 15 turns per cm has a small loop of area 2.0 cm2 placed inside the
solenoid normal to its axis. If the current carried by the solenoid changes steadily
from 2.0A to 4.0A in 0.1s. What is the induced emf in the loop while the current is
changing?
54.State Faraday's law of electromagnetic induction.
Figure shows a rectangular conductor PQRS in which the conductor PQ is free to move in a
uniform magnetic field B perpendicular to the plane of paper.
The field extends from x = 0 to x b and is zero for x > b.
Assume that only the arm PQ possesses resistance r.
When the arm PQ is pulled outward from x = 0 to x = 2b and is then moved backward to x =
0 with constant speed v, obtain the expression for the flux and the induced emf.
Sketch the variation of these quantities with distance 0≤x≤2b.
55.(a) For a given a.c., i=imsinωt, show that the average power dissipated in a resistor R over a
complete cycle is  ½ im2R
(b) A light bulb is rated at 100 W for a 220 V a.c. supply 
Calculate the resistance of the bulb
56.Write an expression for impedance in a series LCR circuit connected to an AC source
and identify the symbols used. Write an expression for resonance frequency.
57.In a series LCR circuit, obtain an expression for the resonant frequency.
58.Draw the magnetic field lines for a current carrying solenoid when a rod made of (i) copper,
(ii) aluminium and (iii) iron are inserted within the solenoid as shown.

59.Deduce the expression for the secondary to primary voltage in terms of the number of
turns in the two coils. In an ideal transformer, how is this ratio related to the currents
in the two coils?
60.Show, on a plot, variation of resistivity of (i) a conductor, and (ii) a typical
semiconductor as a function of temperature. Using the expression for the resistivity in
terms of number density and relaxation time between the collisions, explain how
resistivity in the case of a conductor increases while it decreases in a semiconductor,
with the rise of temperature.
61.Explain the following:
(b) Why do magnetic field lines form continuous closed loops?
(c) Why are the field lines repelled (expelled) when a diamagnetic material is
placed in an external uniform magnetic field?
62.Define self-inductance of a coil. Show that magnetic energy required to build up the
1 2
LI .
current I in a coil of self inductance L is given by 2