PHYSICS CHAPTER 2 PYQ

PHYSICS (042-PYQ'S)

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Question No: 1
A free electron and a free proton are placed between two oppositely charged parallel plates. Both
are closer to the positive plate than the negative plate.
Which of the following statements is true?

I. The force on the proton is greater than the force on the electron.
II. The potential energy of the proton is greater than that of the electron.
III. The potential energy of the proton and the electron is the same.
(a) I only
(b) II only
(c) III and I only
(d) II and I only
Question No: 2
Three charges and lie at vertices of a triangle. The value of and at centroid of
triangle will be
(a) and
(b) and
(c) and
(d) and
Question No: 3
A capacitor plates are charged by a battery with ' ' volts. After charging battery is disconnected
and a dielectric slab with dielectric constant ' ' is inserted between its plates, the potential across
the plates of the capacitor will become

(a) zero (b) (c) (d) KV

Question No: 4
The electric potential at any point is given by where is in metres and in
volts. The electric field at the point ( ) is
(a) along -axis
(b) along -axis
(c) along -x-axis
(d) along -axis.
Question No: 5
A capacitor of capacitance 700 pF is charged by 100 V battery. The electrostatic energy stored by
the capacitor is
(a) (b)
(c) (d)
Question No: 6
Three capacitors each of capacity are to be connected in such a way that the effective
capacitance is . This can be done by
(a) connecting them in series
(b) connecting them is parallel
(c) connecting two in series and one in parallel
(d) connecting two in parallel and one in series
Question No: 7
In a region of constant potential
(a) the electric field is uniform.
(b) the electric field is zero.
(c) there can be no charge inside the region.
(d) both (b) and (c) are correct.
Question No: 8
Three capacitors, each of are to be connected in such a way that the effective capacitance of
the combination is . This can be achieved by connecting.
(a) All three in parallel
(b) All three in series
(c) Two of them connected in series and the combination in parallel to the third.
(d) Two of them connected in parallel and the combination in series to the third.
Question No: 9
The electric potential on the axis of an electric dipole at a distance ' ' from it's centre is . Then
the potential at a point at the same distance on its equatorial line will be
(a) 2 V (b) (c) (d) Zero
Question No: 10
The electric field and the potential of an electric dipole vary with distance as
(a) and (b) and
(c) and (d) and
Question No: 11
Consider a uniform electric field in the z-direction. The potential is a constant
(a) for any for a given
(b) for any for a given
(c) on the - plane for a given
(d) all of these
Question No: 12
Two conducting spheres of radii and are equally charged. The ratio of their potential is
(a) (b)

(c) (d)

ASSERT & REASONING [ Marks:0X0 = 0]

Question No: 13
Assertion (A) : The whole charge of a conductor cannot be transferred to another isolated conductor.
Reason (R) : The total transfer of charge from one to another is not possible.
(a) If both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion.
(b) If both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.
(c) If assertion is true but reason is false.
(d) If both assertion and reason are false.
Question No: 14
Assertion (A) : Electric field is always normal to equipotential surfaces and along the direction of
decreasing order of potential
Reason (R) : Negative gradient of electric potential is electric field.
(a) Both A and R are true and R is correct explanation of .
(b) Both and are true, and is not correct explanation of .
(c) A is true, but R is false.
(d) A is false and R is also false.
Question No: 15
Assertion (A) : The dielectric constant for metals is infinity.
Reason ( ) : When a charged capacitor is filled completely with a metallic slab, its capacity
becomes very large.
(a) If both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion.
(b) If both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.
(c) If assertion is true but reason is false.
(d) If both assertion and reason are false.
Question No: 16
Assertion (A) : Positive charge always moves from a higher potential point to a lower potential point.
Reason (R) : Electric potential is a vector quantity.
(a) If both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion.
(b) If both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.
(c) If assertion is true but reason is false.
(d) If both assertion and reason are false.
Question No: 17
Assertion (A) : An electron has a high potential energy when it is at a location associated with a more
negative value of potential, and a low potential energy when at a location associated with a more
positive potential.
Reason (R) : Electrons move from a region of higher potential to region of lower potential.
Select the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
(a) Both and are true and is the correct explanation of .
(b) Both and are true but is not the correct explanation of .
(c) A is true but R is false.
(d) is false and is also false.

SHORT ANSWER TYPE-I [ Marks:0X0 = 0]

Question No: 18
Three point charges and are kept at the vertices of an equilateral triangle of side as
shown in figure. What is
(i) the electrostatic potential energy of the arrangement? and
(ii) the potential at point ?
Question No: 19
A slab of material of dielectric constant as the same area as the plates of a parallel-plate capacitor
but has a thickness (3/4)d, where is the separation of the plates. How is the capacitance changed
when the slab is inserted between the plates?
Question No: 20
Obtain an expression for electrostatic potential energy of a system of three charges and
placed at the vertices of an equilateral triangle of side .
Question No: 21
Obtain the expression for potential energy of an electric dipole placed with its axis at an angle ( )
to an external electric field ( ). What is the minimum value of the potential energy?
Question No: 22
Two point charges and are located at and respectively.
(a) Depict the equipotential surfaces due to this arrangement.
(b) Find the amount of work done in moving a small test charge from point to .
Question No: 23
Deduce an expression for the potential energy of a system of two point charges and located at
positions and respectively in an external field .
Question No: 24
The electric field inside a parallel plate capacitor is . Find the amount of work done in moving a
charge over a closed rectangular loop abcda.

Question No: 25
Two point charges and are kept ' ' distance apart. Find the location of point relative to
charge ' ' at which potential due to this system of charges is zero.
Question No: 26
Establish the relation between electric field and electric potential at a point. Draw the equipotential
surface for an electric field pointing in direction with its magnitude increasing at constant rate
along direction.
Question No: 27
Two charges and are placed at points and apart.
(a) Identify an equipotential surface of the system.
(b) What is the direction of the electric field at every point on this surface?
Question No: 28
Calculate the potential difference and the energy stored in the capacitor in the circuit shown in
the figure. Given potential at is 90 V , and .

Question No: 29
small conducting liquid droplets, each of radius , are charged to a potential each. These
droplets coalesce to form a single large drop without any charge leakage. Find the potential of the
large drop.
Question No: 30
A capacitor has some dielectric between its plates, and the capacitor is connected to a DC source.
The battery is now disconnected and then the dielectric is removed. State whether the capacitance,
the energy stored in it, electric field, charge stored and the voltage will increase, decrease or remain
constant.
Question No: 31
A parallel plate capacitor of capacitance is charged to a potential V . It is then connected to
another uncharged capacitor having the same capacitance. Find out the ratio of the energy stored in
the combined system to that stored initially in the single capacitor.
Question No: 32
A sphere of radius encloses a net charge . If there is another concentric sphere of radius
enclosing charge , find the ratio of the electric flux through and . How will the
electric flux through sphere change if a medium of dielectric constant 5 is introduced in the
space inside in place of air?

Question No: 33
Two small conducting balls and of radius and have charges and respectively. They
are connected by a wire. Obtain the expression for charges on and , in equilibrium.
Question No: 34
Three capacitors of capacitances and 4 pF are connected in parallel.
(a) What is the total capacitance of the combination?
(b) Determine the charge on each capacitor if the combination is connected to a 100 V supply.
Question No: 35
Prove that, if an insulated, uncharged conductor is placed near a charged conductor and no other
conductors are present, the uncharged body must be intermediate in potential between that of the
charged body and that of infinity.
 SHORT ANSWER TYPE-II [ Marks:0X0 = 0]

Question No: 36
Two identical capacitors of 12 pF each are connected in series across a battery of 50 V . How much
electrostatic energy is stored in the combination? If these were connected in parallel across the
same battery, how much energy will be stored in the combination now?
Also find the charge drawn from the battery in each case.
Question No: 37
Two identical parallel plate capacitors and are connected to a battery of volt with the switch
closed. The switch is now opened and the free space between the plates of the capacitors is filled
with a dielectric of dielectric constant . Find the ratio of the total electrostatic energy stored in
both capacitors before and after the introduction of the dielectric.
Question No: 38
In a parallel plate capacitor with air between the plates, each plate has an area of and
the separation between the plates is 0.3 mm .
(i) Calculate the capacitance of the capacitor.
(ii) If this capacitor is connected to 100 V supply, what would be the charge on each plate?
(iii) How would charge on the plates be affected, if a 3 mm thick mica sheet of is inserted
between the plates while the voltage supply remains connected?
Question No: 39

(a) equivalent capacitance of the network between points and .

Given : .
(b) maximum charge supplied by the battery, and
(c) total energy stored in the network.
Question No: 40
The space between the plates of a parallel plate capacitor is completely filled in two ways. In the
first case, it is filled with a slab of dielectric constant . In the second case, it is filled with two slabs
of equal thickness and dielectric constants and respectively as shown in the figure. The
capacitance of the capacitor is same in the two cases. Obtain the relationship between and
.

Question No: 41
Question No: 42
Two parallel plate capacitors and have the same area of plates and same separation between
them. has air between the plates while contains a dielectric of .
(i) Calculate capacitance of each capacitor if equivalent capacitance of the combination is .
(ii) Calculate the potential difference between the plates of and .
(iii) Estimate the ratio of electrostatic energy stored in and .
Question No: 43
Three point charges and are initially infinite distance apart. Calculate the
work done in assembling these charges at the vertices of an equilateral triangle of side 10 cm .
Question No: 44
In the following arrangement of capacitors, the energy stored in the capacitor is E . Find the
value of the following
(i) Energy stored in capacitor
(ii) Energy stored in capacitor
(iii) Total energy drawn from the battery

Question No: 45
(i) Find the equivalent capacitance between and in the combination given below. Each
capacitor is of capacitance.

(ii) If a dc source of 7 V is connected across AB , how much charge is drawn from the source and
what is the energy stored in the network?
Question No: 46
A hollow sphere having uniform charge density (charge per unit volume) is shown in figure. Find
the potential difference between and .
Question No: 47
A spherical shell of radius having charge has a point charge kept at its centre. Find the work
done by the field in increasing the radius to .

Question No: 48
(a) Two point charges and are placed distance apart. Obtain the expression for the
amount of work done to place a third charge at the midpoint of the line joining the two charges.
(b) At what distance from charge on the line joining the two charges (in terms of and
) will this work done be zero.
Question No: 49
(a) Three point charges and are placed at the vertices of an equilateral triangle of
side 'l' as shown in the figure. Obtain the expression for the magnitude of the resultant electric force
acting on the charge .
(b) Find out the amount of the work done to separate the charges at infinite distance.
Question No: 50
Draw the equipotential surface due to an electric dipole.
Question No: 51
Derive the expression for the electric potential due to an electric dipole at a point on its axial line.
Question No: 52
A 12 pF capacitor is connected to a 50 V battery. How much electrostatic energy is stored in the
capacitor? If another capacitor of 6 pF is connected in series with it with the same battery connected
across the combination, find the charge stored and potential difference across each capacitor
Question No: 53
Two capacitors of unknown capacitances and are connected first in series and then in parallel
across a battery of 100 V . If the energy stored in the two combinations is 0.045 J and 0.25 J
respectively, determine the value of and . Also calculate the charge on each capacitor in
parallel combination.
Question No: 54
Four point charges and are placed at the corners of a square of side ' ' as shown in the
figure. Find the
(a) resultant electric force on a charge , and
(b) potential energy of this system.
Question No: 55
Describe schematically the equipotential surfaces corresponding to
(a) a constant electric field in the z-direction.
(b) a field that uniformly increases in magnitude but remains in a constant (say, z) direction.
(c) a single positive charge at the origin, and
(d) a uniform grid consisting of long equally spaced parallel charged wires in a plane.

LONG ANSWER TYPE [ Marks:X = 0]

Question No: 56
Calculate potential on the axis of a disc of radius due to a charge uniformly distributed on its
surface.
Question No: 57
A spherical capacitor has an inner sphere of radius 12 cm and outer sphere of radius 13 cm . The
outer sphere is earthed and the inner sphere is given a charge of . The space between the
concentric spheres is filled with liquid of dielectric constant 32.
(a) Determine the capacitance of the capacitor.
(b) What is the potential of the inner sphere?
(c) Compare the capacitance of this capacitor with that of an isolated sphere of radius 12 cm .
Explain why the latter is much smaller.
Question No: 58
A cube of side 20 cm is kept in a region as shown in the figure. An electric field exists in the
region such that the potential at a point is given by , where is in volt and is in .
Find the
(i) electric field and
(ii) total electric flux through the cube.

Question No: 59
If two similar large plates, each of area having surface charge densities and are separated
by a distance in air, find the expressions for
(a) field at points between the two plates and on outer side of the plates. Specify the direction of the
field in each case.
(b) the potential difference between the plates.
(c) the capacitance of the capacitor so formed.
Question No: 60
(i) (A) Why does the electric field inside a dielectric slab decrease when kept in an external electric
field?
(B) Derive an expression for the capacitance of a parallel plate capacitor filled with a medium of
dielectric constant .
(ii) A charge is placed at the centre of a sphere of radius 20 cm .
What is the amount of work done in moving from one point to another point on its surface?
(iii) Write a relation for polarisation of a dielectric material in the presence of an external electric
field.
Question No: 61
Write two important characteristics of equipotential surfaces.
Question No: 62
(a) Three charges and are placed at equal distances on a straight line. If the potential
energy of the system of these charges is zero, then what is the ratio ?
(b) (i) Obtain the expression for the electric field intensity due to a uniformly charged spherical shell
of radius at a point distant from the centre of the shell outside it.
(ii) Draw a graph showing the variation of electric field intensity with , for and .
Question No: 63
Find the ratio of the potential differences that must be applied across the parallel and series
combination of two capacitors and with their capacitances in the ratio so that the
energy stored in the two cases becomes the same.
Question No: 64
Two point charges and are kept distance apart in a uniform external electric field . Find the
amount of work done in assembling this system of charges.
Question No: 65
An infinitely large thin plane sheet has a uniform surface charge density . Obtain the expression
for the amount of work done in bringing a point charge from infinity to a point, distant , in front of
the charged plane sheet.
Question No: 66
Figures (a) and (b) show the field lines of a positive and negative point charge respectively.
(a) Give the signs of the potential difference

(b) Give the sign of the potential energy difference of a small negative charge between the points
and and .
(c) Give the sign of the work done by the field in moving a small positive charge from to .
(d) Give the sign of the work done by the external agency in moving a small negative charge form
to .
(e) Does the kinetic energy of a small negative charge increase or decrease in going from to ?
Question No: 67
Is the electrostatic potential necessarily zero at a point where the electric field is zero? Give an
example to support your answer.
Question No: 68
(a) Draw equipotential surfaces for (i) an electric dipole and (ii) two identical positive charges placed
near each other.
(b) In a parallel plate capacitor with air between the plates, each plate has an area of
and the separation between the plates is 3 mm .
(i) Calculate the capacitance of the capacitor.
(ii) If the capacitor is connected to 100 V supply, what would be the on each plate?
(iii) How would charge on the plate be affected if a 3 mm thick mica sheet of is inserted
between the plates while the voltage supply remains connected ?
Question No: 69
(a) Obtain the expressions for the resultant capacitance when the three capacitors and
are connected (i) in parallel and then (ii) in series.
(b) In the circuit shown in the figure, the charge on the capacitor of is . Calculate the
energy stored in the capacitor of capacitance.

Question No: 70
The magnitude of electric field (in ) in a region varies with the distance (in m ) as

By how much does the electric potential increase in moving from point at to a point at
.
Question No: 71
A parallel plate capacitor of capacitance 'C' is charged to ' ' volt by a battery. After some time the
battery is disconnected and the distance between the plates is doubled. Now a slab of dielectric
constant is introduced to fill the space between the plates. How will the following be
affected?
(i) The electric field between the plates of the capacitor?
(ii) The energy stored in the capacitor.
Justify your answer in each case.
Question No: 72
(a) When a parallel plate capacitor is connected across a dc battery, explain briefly how the
capacitor gets changed.
(b) A parallel plate capacitor of capacitance ' C ' is changed to volt by a battery. After some
time the battery is disconnected and the distance between the plates is doubled. Now a slab of
dielectric constant is introduced to full the space between the plates. How will the
following be affected?
(i) The electric field between the plates of the capacitor.
(ii) The energy stored in the capacitor. Justify your answer in each case
(iii) The electric potential as a function of distance is shown in the following figure. Draw a graph
of the electric field as a function of .
Question No: 73
A parallel plate capacitor is charged by a battery to a potential difference V . It is disconnected from
battery and then connected to another uncharged capacitor of the same capacitance. Calculate the
ratio of the energy stored in the combination to the initial energy on the single capacitor.
Question No: 74
The electric potential as a function of distance ' ' is shown in the figure. Draw a graph of the
electric field as a function of .

Question No: 75
A fully charged parallel plate capacitor is connected across an uncharged identical capacitor. Show
that the energy stored in the combination is less than that stored initially in the single capacitor.