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The document contains 25 questions about electric fields and electric field lines related to concepts like point charges, uniform fields, dipoles, and more. It includes calculations of field strength, field at points between charges, and positions where the field is zero. Diagrams are provided for some questions requiring sketches of field lines.

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XII – PHYSICS ELECTROSTATICS ( 1 – B ) ASSIGNMENT – 3

 ELECTRIC FIELD :

Q.1: Electric field due to a source charge Q at the location of test charge q 0 is E . What is the electric
field due to this source charge if test charge is replaced by - q 0 .

Q.2: Draw lines of force to represent a uniform electric field. CBSE

Q.3: What is the nature of the electric field represented by the field lines shown in figure ?

Q.4: Define Electric field intensity. Give the S.I unit of electric field intensity.

Q.5: Name the physical quantity whose SI unit is


(i) Newton / Coulomb. (ii) volt / metre. CBSE

Q.6: What is the relation between electric field intensity and the force ?

Q.7: What is the direction of force acting on a charge ‘q’ placed in an electric field E .

Q.8: Do free electrons travel to region of higher potential or lower potential? NCERT Exempler

  F
Q.9: The electric field E due to a point charge at any near it is defined as E = Lim where ‘q’ is the
q0  0 q

test charge and F is the force acting on it. What is the physical significance of lim in this
expression. CBSE

Q.10: If an oil drop of weigh 3. 2 × 10 13 N is balanced in an electric field of 5 × 10 6 V / m. Find the
charge on the oil drop? [ Ans: 6. 4 × 10 19 C ]

Q.11: Calculate the electric field strength required to just support a water drop of mass 10 3 Kg and
having a charge of 1.6  10 19 C. [ Ans: 6. 125  1016 N / C ]

Q.12: A free electron and a free proton are placed in a uniform field. Which of the two will experience
greater force and greater acceleration ?

Q.13: Two point electric charges of unknown magnitude and sign are placed at a distance ‘d’ apart. The
electric field intensity is zero at a point , not between the charges but on the line joining them. Write
two essential conditions for this to happen. CBSE

 ELECTRIC FIELD DUE TO A POINT CHARGE :


Q.14: What is the nature of symmetry of electric field due to a point charge ?

Q.15: Obtain the expression for electric field around a point charge.

Q.16: A point charge produces an electric field of magnitude 5. 0 N/C at a distance of 40 cm from it. What
is the magnitude of the charge? [ Ans: 888  10 13 C ]
Q.17: Two point electric charges +q and + 4q are separated by a distance of ‘6a’. Find the point on the
line joining the two charges where the electric field is zero. [ Ans: 2a from charge ‘q’ ]

Q.18: Two point charges of +16 C and -9 C are placed 8 cm apart in air. Determine the position of the
point at which the resultant field is zero. [ Ans: 24 cm to the right of - 9C ]

Q.19: Two point charges q1 = + 0. 2 C and q 2 = +0. 4 C are placed 0. 1 m apart. Calculate the electric
field at
(i) mid – point between the charges
(ii) a point joining q1 and q 2 such that it is 0. 05 m away from q 2 and 0. 15 m away from q1 .
11 12
[ Ans: (i) E = E 2 - E1 , we get 7. 2 × 10 N / C (ii) E = E1 + E 2 , we get 1. 52 × 10 N / C ]

 ELECTRIC LINES OF FORCE :


1 – MARKS QUESTION
Q.20: What is meant by electric field line ?
Q.21: Sketch the electric lines of force due to CBSE
(i) q > 0 ( Single positive charge ) (ii) q < 0 ( Single negative charge )
(iii) An electric dipole (iv) Two equal positive charges
(v) Two equal negative charges (vi) Unequal positive charges
(vii) Unequal negative charges (viii) A uniform charged line
(ix) A uniform charged sheet (x) A uniformly positive charged spherical shell
(xi) A uniform negative charged spherical shell.

Q.22: Sketch the electric field lines for a uniformly charged hollow cylinder shown in
figure. NCERT Exemplar

Q.23: Consider the situation shown in the figure below. What are the signs of q1 and q 2 .

Q.24: Electric field lines emitting from a charge ‘q’ are shown in figure.
What is the sign of the charge q?

Q.25: Figure shows the field field lines on a positive charge. Is the work
done by the field in moving a small positive charge from Q to P positive or
negative? Give reason. HOTS

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