
The figure shows a solid hemisphere with a charge of distributed uniformly throughout its volume. The hemisphere lies on a plane and point is located on the plane along a radial line from the centre of curvature at a distance of The electric potential at a point due to the hemisphere is,




Important Questions on Electrostatics
A uniform electric field of exists in space as shown in the graph below. Two points and are also shown with their co-ordinates. The potential difference is


An electric dipole is placed in a uniform electric field of magnitude . The graph shows the magnitude of the torque on the dipole versus the angle between the field and the dipole moment . The magnitude of dipole moment is equal to




The electric potential between a proton and an electron is given by where is a constant. What will be the variation of with , being the principal quantum number, assuming Bohr’s model to be applicable,


