
The work done to move a charge on an equipotential surface is


Important Questions on Electrostatics

Figure shows a charged conductor resting on an insulating stand. If at the point the charge density is , the potential is and the electric field strength is , what are the values of these quantities at point ?

A hollow conducting sphere is placed in an electric field produced by a point charge placed at as shown in figure. Let be the potentials at points and , respectively. Then

A spherical conductor is placed concentrically inside a hollow spherical conductor . The charge is given to and is earthed. Then the electric field is not zero

Consider an initially neutral hollow conducting spherical shell with inner radius and outer radius A point charge is now placed inside the shell at a distance from the center. The shell is then grounded by connecting the outer surface to the earth. P is an external point at a distance from the point charge on the line passing through the center and the point charge as shown in the figure.
The magnitude of the force on a test charge placed at P will be

Assertion : Electric field due to steady current carrying wire is zero outside the wire.
Reason : Net charge present in a current carrying wire is zero.


A dipole having moment is placed in front of a solid uncharged conducting sphere as shown in the diagram. The net potential at point lying on the surface of the sphere is
