St. Joseph’s Junior college 11.
State Gauss’s law in Electrostatics and explain its
importance?
Hyderabad
Electric Potential and Capacitance
Important Questions for Quaterly Exam- (Sep-2025)
12. Derive an expression for the electric potential due
PHYSICS - II YEAR to a point charge.
13. Derive an expression for the potential energy of
LAQ’s ( 8 Marks) Current Electricity an electric dipole placed in a uniform electric field.
14. Derive an expression for the capacitance of a
1. State Kirchhoff’s law for an electrical net work.
parallel plate capacitor.
using these laws deduce the condition for balance
15. Explain series and parallel combination of
in a wheatstone bridge.
capacitors. Derive the formula for equivalent
2. State the working principle of potentiometer
capacitance in each combination.
explain with the help of a circuit diagram how the
16. Derive an expression for the energy stored in a
emf of two primary cells are compared by using
capacitor. What is the energy stored when the
the potentiometer.
space between the plates is filled with a dielectric
3. State the working principle of potentiometer
(a) With charging battery disconnected?
explain with the help of a circuit diagram how the
(b) With charging battery connected in the circuit?
potentiometer is used to determine the internal
resistance of the given primary cell.
VSAQ’s (2 Marks)
Ray Optics and Optical instruments
SAQ’s (4 Marks)
1. Define focal length and radius of curvature of a
Wave Optics concave lens.
2. What do you understand by the terms ‘Focus’ and
1. Explain Doppler effect in light. Distinguish ‘principal’ focus’ in the context of lenses?
between red shift and blue shift. 3. What is optical density and how is it different from
2. Does the principle of conservation of energy hold mass density?
for interference and differaction phenomenon? 4. What are the laws of reflection through curved
Explain briefly. mirrors?
3. How do you determine the resolving power of your 5. Define ‘power’ of a convex lens. what is its unit?
eye? 6. A concave mirror of focal length 10 cm is placed
4. Derive the expression for the intensity at a point at a distance 35 cm from a wall. how far from the
where interference of light occurs. Arrive at the wall should an object be placed so that its real
conditions for maximum and zero intensity. image is formed on the wall?
5. Discuss the intensity of transmitted light when a 7. A concave mirror produces an image of a long
polaroid sheet is rotated between two crossed vertical pin. placed 40 cm from the mirror, 8. A
polaroids. small angled prism of 40 deviates a ray through
2.480. Find the refractive index of the prism.
Electric charges and Fields 9. What is ‘dispersion’? which colour gets relatively
more dispersed?
6. State and explain Coulomb’s inverse squarelaw in
10. The focal length of a concave lens is 30 cm.
electricity.
where should an object be placed so that its
7. Define intensity of electric field at a point. Derive
image is 1/10 of its size?
an expression for the intensity due to a point
11. What is myopia? How can it be corrected?
charge.
8. Derive the equation for the couple acting on a 12. What is hypermetropia? How can it be corrected?
electric dipole in a uniform electric field.
Current Electricity
9. Derive an expression for the electric intensity of
the electric field at a point on the axial line of an
13. A battery of emf 10V and internal resistance 3 is
electric dipole.
10. Derive an expression for the electric intensity of connected to a resistor R .
the electric field at a point on the equatorial plane i) If the current in the circuit is 0.5 A, calculate
of an electric dipole. thevalue of R.
ii) What is the terminal voltage of the battery
whenthe circuit is closed.
14. Three identical resistors are connected in parallel
and total resistance of the circuit is R/3. Find the
value of each resistance.
15. Three resistors 2 , 4 and 5 are combined in
parallel. What is the total resistance of the
combination ? [AP 18 b) If the combination is
connected to a battery ofemf 20V and negligible
internal resistance, determine the current through
each resistor, and the total current drawn from the
battery.
16. A 10 thick wire is stretched so that its length
becomes there is no change in its density on
streching, calculate the resistance of the
stretched wire.
17. A wire of resistance 4 is bent in the form of a
circle. What is the effective resistance between
the ends of the diameter?
18. Find the resistivity of a conductor which carries a
current of density of 2.5 x 106 A when an electric
filed of 15 V m-1 is applied across it.
19. What is the colour code for a resistor of resistance
350 m with 5% tolerance ?
20. A cylindrical metallic wire is streched to increse its
length by 5% . Calculate the percentage change
in resistance.
21. A potentiometer wire is 5 m long and a potential
difference of 6 V is maintained between its ends.
Find the emf of a cell which balances against a
length of 180 cm of the potentiometer wire.
22. A battery of emf 2.5 V and internal resistance r is
connected in series with a resistor of 45 ohm
through an ammeter of resistance 1 ohm. The
ammeter reads a current of 50 mA. Draw the
circuit diagram and calculate the value of r.
23. In a potentiometer arrangement, a cell of emf
1.25V gives a balance point at 35.0cm length of
the wire. If the cell is replaced by another cell and
the balance point shifts to 63.0cm, what is the emf
of the second cell ?
24. The four resistors 20 , 40 , (20 + x) , 80
respectively form a wheatstone bridge. Find the
value of ‘x’ .
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