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What is the
EXERCISES
1.2 charges of 2 xforce
10 Cbetween two small
The and 3 x 10C placedcharged spheres
eldistance
ectsmall
rostatisphere a small sphere of charge 0.4 uC having
c force ofoncharge 30 cm apart in air?
another
the -0.8 uC in air is 0.2 N. (a) due to
1.3 second
Check sphere between
due to
the two spheres? (b) What is the force What
the
is
on the
of that the ratio first? is
doesPhysical ke/G m_m, dimensionless.
l.4 the ratioConstants and determine Look up a
the value of this ratio. Table
(a) bxplain
is
signify?
the meaning of the
quantised'.
What
(0) Why can one statement 'electric charge of a body
with ignore quantisation of electric
1.5
macroscopic
When glass rod is
a i.e., large scale charges? charge whern dealing
rubbed with a silk cloth,
both. A similar
bodies. Explain phemomenon is observed with charges appear on
how this many other pairs of
1.6 conservation of charge. observation is consistent with the law of
Four point charges q, =2 uC, q
located at the corners of a =-5 uC, q, = 2 uC, and g, =
force on a charge square ABCD of side 10 cm. What -5 Care
1.7 (a) An of 1 uC placed at the centre of the is the
electrostatic
line cannot have field line is a
continuous curve. square?
(b) ExXplain why two sudden breaks. Why That is, a field
not?
1.8
Two point charges q, field lines never cross each
in vacuumn.
= 3 uC and q. =-3 uC are other at any point?
(a) What is the located 20 cm apart
electric field at the midpoint O of the
the two charges? line AB joining
(b) If a negative test
this point, what ischargethe
of magnitude 1.5 x
10 Cis placed at
1.9 A system has two force experienced by the test charge?
located at points A:charges q, =2.5 x 10 C
(0, 0, -15 cm) and B: and qo -2.5 x 10 C
What are the total charge and (0,0, +15 cm),
1.10 An electric dipole with electric dipole moment of respectively.
dipole moment 4 x 10 C m is the system?
with the direction of a unifom
field of magnitudealigned
at 30°
Calculate the electric 5 X 10*
1.11 A polythene piece
magnitude of the torque acting on the dipole. NC.
rubbed with wool is found to have a negative
charge of 3 x 10 C.
(a) Estimate the number of electrons transferred (from
which?) which to
(b) Is there a transfer of mass from wool to
polythene?
1.12 (a) Two insulated charged copper spheres A and B have their centres
separated by a dístance of 50 cm. What is the mutual force of
electrostatic repulsion if the charge on each is 6.5 x 107 c? The
radíf of A and B are negligible compared to the distance of
separation.
(b) What is the force of repulslon if each sphere is charged double
the above amount, and the distance betwveen them is halved?
1.13 Figure 1.30 shows tracks -of three charged particles in a uniform
electrostaticfield. Give the signs of the three charges. Which particle
has the highest charge to mass ratio?
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FIGURE 1.30

1,14 Consider a untform electricfleld E =3x 101 N/C. (a) What is the
flux of this field through a square of 10 cm on a side whose plane is
parallel to the yz plane? (b) What ls the flux through the same
square if the normal to its plane makes a 60 angle with the x-ax0s?
1,15 What is the net flux of the uniform electric fleld of Exercise 1.14
through a cube of side 20 cm oriented so that its faces are parallel
to the coordinate planes?
1.16 Careful measurement of the electric field at the surface of a black
box indicates that the net outward flux through the surface of the
box is 8.0x 10° Nm'/C. (a) What is the net charge inside the box?
(b) If the net outward flux through the surface of the box were zero,
could you conclude that there were no charges inside the box? Why
or Why not?
1.17 A point charge f10 Cis a distance 5 cm directly above the centre
of a square of side 10 cm, as shown in Fig, 1.31. 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.)
5 cm

10
cm

10 cm
FIGURE 1.31

1.18 A point charge of 2.0 uC is at the centre of a cubic

Gaussian
surface 9.0 cmn on edge. What is the net electric flux through the
surface?
1,19 A point charge causes an electrlc flux of -1.0 x 10° Nm'/C to nass
through aspherlcal Gausslan surface of 10.0 em radius centred on
the charge. (a) If the radius of the Gausslan surface were doubled.
how much flux would pass through the surface? (b) What is the
value of the polnt charge?
1.20 A conducting sphere of radius 10 cm has an unknown charge. If
the electric field 20 cm from the centre of the sphere is 1.5 x 103 N/C
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and points radially inward, what is the net charge on the sphere?
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1.21
A uniformly charged
Surtace charge densityconducting sphere of 2.4 m
of 80.0 uC/m. (a) Find thediamneter has a
sphere. (b) What is the total electric flux charge on the
sphere? leaving the surface of the
1.22 An infinite line charge
of 2 cm. produces a field of 9 x 10* N/C at a
1.23 Calculate the
Two large, thin metal linear charge density. distance
their inner faces, the plates are parallel and close to each
signs and of plates have surface charge other. On
region of themagnitude
first
17.0 x 1022 C/m.
plate, (b) in the outer What densities
is E: (a)
of
opposite
in the
and (c)
between the plates? region of the second outer
plate,