Electric Field

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Electric Field: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as, Electric Field, Electric Field Due to a Point Charge, Electric Field due to a Large Charged Sheet Using Coulomb's Law & Electric Field near a Conductor etc.

Important Questions on Electric Field

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A charge q is placed at the centre of the line joining two equal charges Q. The system of three charges will be in equilibrium if

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A charged ring having charge density as λ=λ0cosθ. Find the electric B field at point P(0,0, z).

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When electric field is applied to the electrons in a conductor it starts

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The graph showing the variation of electric field (E) with the distance (r) from the centre of a conducting spherical shell is - 

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A ring of radius R with a uniformly distributed charge q is shown in figure. A charge q0is now placed at the centre of the ring. Find the increment in the tension in ring.

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Two point charges Q and -3Q are placed at some distance apart. If the electric field at the location of Q is E, the field at the location of -3Q is

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The force exerted by an electric field on a charge of +10 μC at a point is 16 x 10-4 N. The intensity of electric field is
 

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A charge of 4×10-8 C is distributed uniformly on the surface of a sphere of radius 1 cm. It is covered by a concentric, hollow conducting sphere of radius 5 cm.
(a) Find the electric field at a point 2 cm away from the centre.
(b) A charge of 6x10-8 C is placed on the hollow sphere. Find the surface charge density on the outer surface of the hollow sphere.

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A point charge -50 μC is located at (2, 3). Find electric field at (8, -5).

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The charge Q=π C is distributed on thin semicircular ring of radius R=2 m. There is a uniform electrostatic field E=2 N C-1 directed horizontally. The semicircular ring can rotate freely about a fixed vertical axis AB. Initially the ring is in static equilibrium as shown in figure. If we want to rotate it about the fixed axis by 90°, then minimum work required on the ring is x J. Find the value of x.

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Two charges 3C and q C are placed at 2,0 and 0,2. The direction of intensity of electric field at 2,2 makes an angle 30° with yaxis then q is :

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Two unlike charges Q1 and Q2 are positioned at point 0,0 and 2 mm,0 as shown in the figure. The graph between the field strength at any point on the x-axis, to the right of the charge Q2 varies according to a law that is represented schematically in the figure (2). The field strength is assumed to be positive if its direction coincides with the positive direction on the x-axis. The field strength is zero at point B4222-1 mm,0 and is maximum at point C. The charges Q1 and Q2 are respectively

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A block of mass m and charge q is connected to a point O with help of an inextensible string. The system is on a horizontal table. An electric field is switched on in direction perpendicular to string. What will be tension in string when it become parallel to electric field?

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A charge particle is released from rest in an uniform electric field for 2 s its KE is 20 J. If the same charge particle from state of rest is allowed to accelerate for 3 s, its KE will be

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A thin rigid insulating ring of radius r and mass m has a very small gap of length ll<r and carries a uniformly distributed charge q. The ring is at rest in free space and a uniform electric field E in the plane of the ring and parallel to the gap is switched on as shown in the figure. Find the maximum angular speed of the ring in subsequent motion.

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The electric field at 30,30 cm due to a charge -8 nC at the origin in N C-1 is

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A particle of charge -q revolves around a long cylinder radius of radius R charge density ρ. Find the kinetic energy of the charge

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A proton and an α particle having equal kinetic energy are projected in a uniform transverse electric field as shown in figure

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A circular metal plate of radius 1.5 cm is charged with 10 μC situated in air. If the same circular plate carrying same charge were kept in acetone, what would be magnitude of mechanical force? (kacetone =27)

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An arc of radius r, lying in the first quadrant is shown in the figure. The linear charge density on the arc is λ. The magnitude and direction of electric field intensity at the point of origin is

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