Gauss’ Law and Its Applications
Gauss’ Law and Its Applications: Overview
This topic covers concepts, such as, Gauss Theorem in Electrostatics, Electric Field inside the Overlapping Region of Two Oppositely Charged Spheres & Electric Field inside the Cylindrical Cavity of Uniformly Charged Cylinder etc.
Important Questions on Gauss’ Law and Its Applications
Which law is used to derive the expression for the electric field between two uniformly charged large parallel sheets with surface charge densities and respectively:

Applying Gauss theorem, the expression for the electric field intensity at a point due to an infinitely long, thin, uniformly charged straight wire is

A hollow charged metal sphere has radius . If the potential difference between its surface and a point at a distance from the centre is, then electric field intensity at a distance is:

Assertion: Gauss's law can't be used to calculate electric field near an electric dipole.
Reason: Electric dipole don't have symmetrical charge distribution.

Let the electrostatic field, at distance, from a point charge, not be an inverse square but instead an inverse cubic, e.g. , here is a constant. Consider the following two statements: (I) Flux through a spherical surface enclosing the charge is, . (II) A charge placed inside a uniformly charged shell will experience a force. Which of the above statements are valid?

A point electric charge is placed at a corner of a cube as shown in the figure. What is the electric flux passing through of the cube? ( is permittivity of free space)

A point charge is placed at the center of a cube of side in vacuum (permitivity The flux of the electric field through the shaded face is given by

A sphere of radius carries a positive charge density that increases linearly with radial distance from the centre The radial dependence of the magnitude of electric field inside the sphere is given by

A hollow cylinder has a charge coulomb within it. If is the electric flux in units of associated with the curved surface , the flux linked with the plane surface in units of will be

A parallel plate capacitor has two square plates with equal and opposite charges. The surface charge densities on the plates are and respectively. In the region between the plates the magnitude of the electric field is

The potential (in volts) of a charge distribution is given by
for
for .
does not depend on and . If this potential is generated by a constant charge per unit volume (in units of ) which is spread over a certain region, then choose the correct statement.

The ratio of electric field intensity at & in the shown arrangement is

A charge is placed at a distance above the centre of a square surface of side length . The electric flux through the square surface due to the charge would be?

Consider a uniformly charged solid cylinder of large length and radius Now consider a cylindrical surface of radius and length coaxial with cylinder and electric flux through cylindrical surface is Now consider a spherical surface of radius and one of the diameter along axis of cylinder and electric flux through spherical surface is Find to the nearest integer.

In the shown figure a hemisphere is placed and two charges and are placed symmetrically about centre Net electric flux over curved surface is given as where and are lowest possible integers then value of is :

The electric field in a region is radially outwards with magnitude In a sphere of radius centered at the origin, calculate the value of charge in coulombs if and

A sphere of radius have volume charge density given as
for
for
If electric field at distance from centre is Then will be.

A point charge of is at a distance vertically above the centre of a square of side as shown in figure. The magnitude of the electric flux through the square will be _________ (Write the value to the nearest integer)

A circular disc of radius carries surface charge density where is a constant and r is the distance from the center of the disc. Electric flux through a large spherical surface that encloses the charged disc completely is Electric flux through another spherical surface of radius and concentric with the disc is The ratio , find the value of .

In the figure shown, there is a large sheet of charge of uniform surface charge density . A charge particle of charge and mass is projected from a point on the sheet with a speed with angle of projection such that it lands at maximum distance from on the sheet. Neglecting gravity, find the time of flight.
