10.

Combination of two identical capacitors, a resistor R and a DC voltage source of voltage 6V is used in an
experiment on R – C circuit. It is found that for a parallel combination of the capacitor, the time in which
the voltage of the fully charged combination reduces to half its original voltage is 10s. For series
combination, the time needed for reducing the voltage of the fully charged series combination by half is :
[2011]
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(A) 20 s (B) 10 s (C) 5s (D) 2.5 s
1. Capacitance (in F) of a spherical conductor having radius 1 m, is : [2002]
11. A resistor R and a 2 F capacitor are connected in series through a switch to 200 V direct supply. Across
(A) 1.1  10 10 (B) 10 6 (C) 9  10 9 (D) 10 3
the capacitor is a neon bulb that light up at 120 V. Calculate the value of R to make the bulb light up 5s
2. A sheet of aluminium foil of negligible thickness is introduced between the plates of a capacitor. The after the switch has been closed : (Take, log102.5 = 0.4) [2011]
capacitance of the capacitor : [2003] (A) 1.7  105 Ω (B) 2.7  106 Ω (C) 3.3  107 Ω (D) 1.3  10 4 Ω
(A) decreases (B) remains unchanged
12. Two capacitors C1 and C2 are charged to 120 V and 200 V, respectively. It is found that by connecting
(C) becomes infinite (D) increases
them together, the potential on each one can be made zero. Then : [2013]
The minimum work done in placing a charge of 8  10 18
3. C on a condenser of capacity 100 F is : [2003] (A) 5C1 = 3C2 (B) 3C1 = 5C2 (C) 3C1 + 5C2 = 0 (D) 9C1 = 4C2

(A) 16  1032 J (B) 3.1  10 26 J (C) 4  10 10 J (D) 32  10 32 J 13. A parallel plate capacitor is made of two circular plates separated by a distance of 5 mm with a dielectric

4. A parallel plate capacitor is made by stacking n equally spaced plates connected alternatively. If the of dielectric constant 2.2 between them. When the electric field in the dielectric is 3  10 4 V / m , the

capacitance between any two adjacent plates is C, then the resultant capacitance is : [2005] charge density of the positive plate will be close to : [2014]
(A) (n – 1)C (B) (n + 1)C (C) C (D) nC (A) 6  10 7 C / m 2 (B) 3  10 7 C / m 2 (C) 3  10 4 C / m 2 (D) 6  10 4 C / m 2

5. A fully charged capacitor has a capacitance C. It is discharged through a small coil of resistance wire 14. In the given circuit, charge Q2 on the 2 F capacitor changes as C is varied from 1 F to 3 F. Q2 as
embedded in a thermally insulated block of specific heat capacity s and mass m. If the temperature of the
a function of C is given properly by : (figures are drawn schematically and are not to scale) [2015]
block is raised by ΔT , the potential difference V across the capacitance is : [2005]
2mCΔT mCΔT msΔT 2msΔT
(A) (B) (C) (D)
s s C C
6. A parallel plate condenser with a dielectric of dielectric constant K between the plates has a capacity C
and is charged to a potential V volts. The dielectric slab is slowly removed from between the plates and
then reinserted. The net work done by the system in this process is : [2007]
1
(A)  K  1 CV 2 (B) CV 2  K  1 / K (C)  K  1 CV 2 (D) Zero
2
(A) (B) (C) (D)
7. A battery is used to charge a parallel plate capacitor till the potential difference between the plates
becomes equal to the electromotive force of the battery. The ratio of the energy stored in the capacitor
and the work done by the battery will be : [2007] 15. A combination of capacitors is set-up as shown in the figure. The
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 1/4 (D) 1/2 magnitude of the electric field, due to a point charge Q (having a
8. A parallel plate capacitor with air between the plates has a capacitance of 9pF. The separation between charge equal to the sum of the charges on the 4 F and 9 F
its plates is d. The space between the plate is now filled with two dielectrics. One of the dielectric has capacitors), at a point 30 m distant from it, would be equal to: [2016]
dielectric constant K1 = 3 and thickness d/3 while the other one has dielectric constant K2 = 6 and
(A) 240 N/C (B) 360 N/C
thickness 2d/3. Capacitance of the capacitor is now : [2008]
(C) 420 N/C (D) 480 N/C
(A) 1.8 pF (B) 45 pF (C) 40.5 pF (D) 20.25 pF
9. Let C be the capacitance of a capacitor discharging through a resistor R. Suppose t1 is the time taken for 16. A capacitance of 2 F is required in an electrical circuit across a potential difference of 1 kV. A large

the energy stored in the capacitor to reduce to half its initial value and t2 is the time taken for the charge number of 1 F capacitors are available which can withstand a potential difference of not more than 300

to reduce to one-fourth its initial value. Then, the ratio t1/t2 will be : [2010] V. The minimum number of capacitors required to achieve this is: [2017]
(A) 16 (B) 24 (C) 32 (D) 2
(A) 1 (B) 1/2 (C) 1/4 (D) 2

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r1 r2 r1
(A) CE (B) CE (C) CE (D) CE
(r2  r ) (r  r2 ) (r1  r )
18. A parallel plate capacitor of capacitance 90 pF is connected to a battery of emf 20 V. If a dielectric
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material of dielectric constant K  is inserted between the plates, the magnitude of the induced charge
3
will be: [2018]
(A) 1.2 nC (B) 0.3 nC (C) 2.4 nC (D) 0.9 nC
19. A parallel plate capacitor with square plates is filled with four dielectrics of dielectric constants
K1, K 2, K 3, K 4 arranged as shown in the figure. The effective dielectric constant K will be : [2019]

(K1  K 2 )(K 3  K 4 )
(A) K 
2(K1  K 2  K 3  K 4 )

(K1  K 4 )( K 2  K 3 )
(B) K 
2(K1  K 2  K 3  K 4 )

( K1  K 2 )(K 3  K 4 )
(C) K 
K1  K 2  K 3  K 4

( K1  K 3 )(K 2  K 4 )
(D) K 
K1  K 2  K 3  K 4

20. A parallel plate capacitor is made of two square plates of side ‘a’,
separated by a distance d(d  a ). The lower triangular portion is filled
with a dielectric of dielectric constant K, as shown in the figure.

Capacitance of this capacitor is: [2019]

1 K 0 a2 K 0 a2 K 0 a2 K 0 a2
(A) (B) ln K (C) ln K (D)
2 d d d( K  1) 2d( K  1)
21. A parallel plate capacitor having capacitance 12pF is charged by a battery to a potential difference of 10V
between its plates. The charging battery is now disconnected and a porcelain slab of dielectric constant
6.5 is slipped between the plates. The work done by the capacitor on the slab is : [2019]
(A) 560 pJ (B) 692 pJ (C) 508 pJ (D) 600 pJ

22. A parallel plate capacitor is of area 6cm2 and a separation 3 mm. The
gap is filled with three dielectric materials of equal thickness (see figure)
with dielectric constants K1  10, K 2  12 and K 3  14. The dielectric
constant of a material which when fully inserted in above capacitor, gives
same capacitance would be: [2019]
(A) 14 (B) 36 (C) 12 (D) 4

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