MCQ (ELECTRIC FIELD AND CHARGES)
1. The surface considered for Gauss’s law is called
(a) Closed surface
(b) Spherical surface
(c) Gaussian surface
(d) Plane surface.
2. The total flux through the faces of the cube with side of length a if a charge q is placed at
corner A of the cube is
2. Which of the following statements is not true about Gauss’s law?
(a) Gauss’s law is true for any closed surface.
(b) The term q on the right side side of Gauss’s law includes the sum of all charges enclosed
by the surface.
(c) Gauss’s law is not much useful in calculating electrostatic field when the system has some
symmetry.
(d) Gauss’s law is based on the inverse square dependence on distance contained in the
coulomb’s law
3. A charge Q is placed at the centre of the line joining two-point charges +q and +q as shown
in the figure. The ratio of charges Q and q is
(a) 4
(b) 1/4
(c) -4
(d) -1/4
4. The force per unit charge is known as
(a) electric flux
(b) electric field
(c) electric potential
(d) electric current
5. . Electric field lines provide information about
(a) field strength
(b) direction
(c) nature of charge
(d) all of these
6. Which of the following figures represent the electric field lines due to a single negative
charge?
7. The SI unit of electric flux is
(a) N C-1 m-2
(b) N C m-2
(c) N C-2 m2
(d) N C-1 m2
8. The unit of electric dipole moment is
(a) newton
(b) coulomb
(c) farad
(d) debye
9. Consider a region inside which, there are various types of charges but the total charge is
zero. At points outside the region
(a) the electric field is necessarily zero.
(b) the electric field is due to the dipole moment of the charge distribution only.
(c) the dominant electric field is inversely proportional to r3, for large r (distance from
origin).
(d) the work done to move a charged particle along a closed path, away from the region will
not be zero.
10. SI unit of permittivity of free space is
(a) Farad
(b) Weber
(c) C2N-1 m-2
(d) C2N-1 m-2
11. Which of the following statement is true?
(a) Electrosta c force is a conserva ve force.
(b) Poten al at a point is the work done per unit charge in bringing a charge from any point
to infinity.
(c) Electrosta c force is non-conserva ve
(d) Poten al is the product of charge and work
12. If the sizes of charged bodies are very small compared to the distances between them, we
treat them as ____________.
a. Zero charges
b. Point charges.
c. Single charge
d. No charges
13. Charge is the property associated with ma er due to which it produces and experiences
(a) electric effects only
(b) magne c effects only
(c) both electric and magne c effects
(d) None of these
14. A body is posi vely charged, it implies that
(a) there is only posi ve charge in the body.
(b) there is posi ve as well as nega ve charge in the body but the posi ve charge is more
than nega ve charge
(c) there is equal posi ve and nega ve charge in the body but the posi ve charge lies in the
outer regions
(d) nega ve charge is displaced from its posi on
15. In annihila on process, in which an electron and a positron transform into two gamma
rays, which property of electric charge is displayed?
(a) Addi vity of charge
(b) Quan sa on of charge
(c) Conserva on of charge
(d) A rac on and repulsion
16. Two charges q1 and q2 are placed in vacuum at a distance d and the force ac ng between
them is F. If a medium of dielectric constant 4 is introduced around them, the force now
will be
(a) F
(b) F/2
(c) F/4
(d) 4F
17. Two similar spheres having +Q and -Q charges are kept at a certain distance. F force acts
between the two. If at the middle of two spheres, another similar sphere having +Q charge
is kept, then it experiences a force in magnitude and direc on as
(a) zero having no direc on.
(b) 8F towards +Q charge.
(c) 8F towards -Q charge.
(d) 4F towards +Q charge.
18. A charge Q is divided into two parts of q and Q – q. If the coulomb repulsion between them
when they are separated is to be maximum, the ra o of Q/q should be
(a) 2:1
(b) 1/2
(c) 4:1
(d) ¼
19. Four equal charges q are placed at the four comers A, B, C, D of a square of length a. The
magnitude of the force on the charge at B will be
20. Two charges of equal magnitudes kept 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 ac ng on
each charge is
21. Electric field at a point varies as r° for
(a) an electric dipole
(b) a point charge
(c) a plane infinite sheet of charge
(d) a line charge of infinite length
22. An electric charge q is placed at the centre of a cube of side a. The electric flux on one of its
faces will be
23. A point charge q is placed at a distance a/2 directly above the centre of a square of side a.
The electric flux through the square is
24. Which of the following graphs shows the varia on of electric field E due to a hollow
spherical conductor of radius R as a func on of distance from the centre of the sphere?
25. The magnitude of electric field intensity E is such that, an electron placed in it would
experience an electrical force equal to its weight is given by
(a) mge
(b) mg/e
(c) e/mg
(d) e²g/m²
26. In Fig. (i) two posi ve charges q2 and q3 fixed along the y-axis, exert a net electric force in
the +x direc on on a charge q1 fixed along the x-axis. If a posi ve charge Q is added at (x,
0) in figure (ii), the force on q1 is
(a) shall increase along the posi ve x-axis.
(b) shall decrease along the posi ve x-axis.
(c) shall point along the nega ve x-axis.
(d) shall increase but the direc on changes because of the intersec on of Q with q2 and qy
27. A point charge +q is placed at a distance d from an isolated conduc ng plane. The field at a
point P on the other side of the plane is
(a) directed perpendicular to the plane and away from the plane.
(b) directed perpendicular to the plane but towards the plane.
(c) directed radially away from the point charge.
(d) directed radially towards the point charge.
28. A charge Q is placed at the centre of the line joining two point charges +q and +q as shown
in the figure. The ra o of charges Q and q is
(a) 4
(b) 1/4
(c) -4
(d) -1/4
29. An electron is rota ng around an infinite posi ve linear charge in a circle of radius 0.1 m, if
the linear charge density is 1 μC/m, then the velocity of electron in m/s will be
(a) 0.562 × 107
(b) 0.562 x 106
(c) 562 x 107
(d) 0.0562 x 107
