Assignment Number 1

Question # 1: A point charge of +3.12 x 10-6 C is 12.3 cm from 2nd charge 1.48 × 10-6 C.

Calculate magnitude of force?

Question # 2: What must be distance between point charge q1 = 26.3 uC and charge q2 =

47.1 uC in order that force between them is 5.66 N?

Question # 3: In the return stroke of typical lightning bolt, a current 2.5 x 104 a flows for

20 us how much charge is transferred?

Question # 4: Calculate the magnitude of electric field due to electric dipole moment 3.56 ×
10-29 C-m at a point 25.4 nm away along bisector axis?

Question # 5: Calculate dipole moment of electron and proton 4.3 nm apart?

Question # 6: What is the magnitude of point charge, chosen so that electric field 75 cm
away has value 2.3 N/C?

Question # 7: As two equally charged particles held 3.20 mm are released from rest, the
initial acceleration of 1" particles is 722 m/s and that of 2"d particle is 9.16 m/s. The mass of
1" particle is 6.31 × 10-7 kg

(a) Find mass of 2"d particle (b) the magnitude of common charge?

Question # 8: A 115 KeV electron is fired directly towards a large flat plastic sheet that has a
surface charge density -2.08 uC/m'. From what distance must the electron be fired if it is just
to fail to strike the sheet?

Question # 9: A proton orbits with a speed 294 km/s just outside a charged sphere of radius
1.13 cm. Find charge on sphere?

Question # 10: An electric dipole consists of charges of magnitude 1.48 nC separated by

6.23 um. It is in electric field of 1100 N/C.

(a) Calculate the magnitude of dipole moment

(b) What is difference in PE corresponding to dipole orientation parallel and anti-parallel to

field?

Question # 11: In a crystal of salt an atom of sodium transfers one of its electrons to atom of
chlorine. The resulting +ve Na and -ve Cl ion attracts each other. Calculate force of attraction
if r = 282 pm?

Question # 12: Find total charge in coulombs of 75 kg of electrons?

Question # 13: A uniformly charged conducting sphere of 1.22 m radius has surface charge
density 8.13 uC m-2

(a) Find the charge on sphere.

(b) What is the electric flux leaving surface?

(c) Calculate electric field at the surface of sphere?

Question # 14: The electric field just above the surface of the charged drum of photocopying
machine has magnitude of electric field 2.3 x 10 5N/C. What is the surface charge density on
the drum if it is conductor?

Question # 15: The magnitude of electric field normally present in earth atmosphere just
above the surface of earth is 150 N/C directed downward. What is net surface charge density
assume that earth is a conductor?

Question # 16: A hypothetical closed cylinder of radius R is immersed in a uniform electric

field E, the cylinder axis being parallel to the field. Find electric flux for this closed surface?

Question # 17: A molecule of water vapour has an electric dipole moment P = 6.2 x 10 -30 C-
m (a) How far apart are the effective centres of positive and negative charge in a molecule of
H2O (b) what is the maximum torque on a molecule of H 2O in electric field of 1.5 x 10-4
N/C. (c) Suppose that dipole moment of a molecule of H 2O is initially pointing in a direction
opposite to the field. How much work is done by the electric field in rotating the molecule
into alignment with the field?

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