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Four charges are placed at the circumference of the dial of a clock as shown in figure. If the clock has only hour hand, then the resultant force on a positive charge q0 placed at the centre, points in the direction which shows the time as x:30, find x :-
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Important Questions on Electric Charges and Fields

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Suppose the charge of a proton and an electron differ slightly. One of them is e, the other is e+Δe. If the net electrostatic force and gravitational force between two hydrogen atoms placed at a distance d (much greater than atomic size) apart is zero, then Δe is of the order of [Given mass of hydrogen mh= 1.67×1027 kg]
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Four identical pendulums are made by attaching a small ball of mass 100 g on a 20 cm long thread and suspended from the same point. Now each ball is given charge q so that balls move away from each other with each thread making an angle of 45o from the vertical. The value of q is close to 14πε0=9×109, S.I. units
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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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A certain charge 2Q is divided at first into two parts q1 and q2. Later the charges are placed at a certain distance. If the force of interaction between two charges is maximum then Qq1=
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The dimensional formula of coefficient of permittivity for free space (ε0) in the equation F=14πε0q1q2r2, where symbols have their usual meanings, is
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Two point charges A and B, having charges +Q and -Q respectively, are placed at certain distance apart and force acting between them is F. If  25% charge of A is transferred to B, then the force between the charges becomes
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The radius of a nucleus is given by r0A1/3 where r0=1.3×10-15 m and A is the mass number of the nucleus, the Lead nucleus has A=206, the electrostatic force between two protons in this nucleus is approximately
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Three Point charges each equal to +q are placed at the vertices of an equilateral triangle of side 'l'. The net force on a charge q1 placed at the centre of the triangle is
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Two positively charged spheres of masses m1 and m2 are suspended from a common point at the ceiling by identical insulating massless strings of length l . Charges on the two spheres are q1 and q2, respectively. At equilibrium, both strings make the same angle θ with the vertical. Then
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A point charge + Q is held at rest at a point P. Another point charge -q , whose mass is m , moves at a constant speed v in a circular orbit of radius R1 around P. The work required to increase the radius of revolution of -q from R1, to another orbit R2 is R2>R1 where   K=14πε0
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The acceleration of an electron due to the mutual attraction between the electron and a proton when they are 1.6 Å apart is,
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Two charges, each equal to q, are kept at x=-a and x=a on the x-axis. A particle of mass m and charge q0=-q2 is placed at the origin. If charge q0 is given a small displacement (ya) along the y-axis, the net force acting on the particle is proportional to :
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Two electrons are moving with equal speed of 5×105 m s-1 parallel to each other. The ratio of the electrostatic to the magnetic force between them is
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Two charges of equal magnitudes and at a distance r exert a force F on each other. If the charges are halved and distance between them is doubled, then the new force acting on each charge is

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Two small metal spheres A and B charged positively are separated by 2 m in air. The force on a charge of +1 C placed on the line joining the centres of the spheres and at a distance of 0.5 m from A is found to be zero. The ratio qA:qB of charges on A and B is
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Two equally charged metal spheres A and B repel each other with a force of 4×10-5 N. Another identical uncharged sphere C is touched to A and then placed at the mid point of the line joining the spheres A and B. The net electric force on the sphere C is
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Three identical charges each of magnitude 3μC are placed at the corners of a right angled triangle ABC whose base BC and height BA are 3 cm and 4 cm respectively. Forces on the charge at right angled corner B due to charges at A and C are F1 and F2 respectively. The angle between their resultant force and F2 is
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The dimensions of ε0 (permittivity in free space) is
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Let 0 denote the dimensional formula of the permittivity of vacuum. If M = mass, L = length, T = time and A = electric current, then :

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Two identical charged spheres suspended from a common point by two massless strings of lengths l, are initially at a distance d( dl ) apart because of their mutual repulsion. The charges begin to leak from both the spheres at a constant rate. As a result, the spheres approach each other with a velocity υ. Then υ varies as a function of the distance x between the spheres, as