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A metallic sphere is kept in between two oppositely charged plates. The most appropriate representation of the field lines is

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Consider a cube of uniform charge density, ρ. The ratio of the electrostatic potential at the center of the cube to that at one of the corners of the cube is, 
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Two small metal balls of different masses m1 and m2 are connected by strings of equal length to a fixed point. When the balls are given equal charges, the angles that the two strings make with the vertical are 30° and 60°, respectively. The ratio m1m2 is close to, 
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Consider a spherical shell of radius R with a total charge +Q uniformly spread on its surface (center of the shell lies at the origin x=0 ). Two point charge, +q and-q are brought, one after the other, from far away and placed at x=-a2 and x=+a2a<R, respectively. Magnitude of the work done in this process is
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A certain p-n junction having a depletion region of width 20 μm, was found to have a breakdown voltage of 100 V. If the width of the depletion region is reduced to 1 μm during its production, then it can be used as a zener diode for voltage regulation of:
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Consider an initially neutral hollow conducting spherical shell with inner radius r and outer radius 2r. A point charge +Q is now placed inside the shell at a distance r2 from the center. The shell is then grounded by connecting the outer surface to the earth. P is an external point at a distance 2r from the point charge +Q on the line passing through the center and the point charge +Q as shown in the figure.

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The magnitude of the force on a test charge +q placed at P will be

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A point particle of mass 0.5 kg is moving along the X -axis under a force described by the potential energy V shown below. It is projected towards the right from the origin with a speed v.

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What is the minimum value of v for which the particle will escape infinitely far away from the origin?

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A positive charge q is placed at the centre of a neutral hollow cylindrical conducting shell with its cross section as shown in the figure below.

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Which one of the following figures correctly indicates the induced charge distribution in the conductor (ignore edge effects).
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Let the electrostatic field, E at distance, r from a point charge, q not be an inverse square but instead an inverse cubic, e.g. E=kqr3r^, here k is a constant. Consider the following two statements: (I) Flux through a spherical surface enclosing the charge is, ϕ=qenclosedε0. (II) A charge placed inside a uniformly charged shell will experience a force. Which of the above statements are valid?