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Electric Potential Assignment

This document contains 25 questions regarding electric potential and electric fields. Some key calculations involve determining the potential at various points due to single or multiple point charges, as well as the work done in moving charges between points. Other questions involve concepts such as equipotential surfaces, electric fields due to charged objects like wires, spheres and shells, and the potential energy of electric dipole and multipole systems. The document provides answers to each question in square brackets following the question statement.

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Electric Potential Assignment

This document contains 25 questions regarding electric potential and electric fields. Some key calculations involve determining the potential at various points due to single or multiple point charges, as well as the work done in moving charges between points. Other questions involve concepts such as equipotential surfaces, electric fields due to charged objects like wires, spheres and shells, and the potential energy of electric dipole and multipole systems. The document provides answers to each question in square brackets following the question statement.

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Electric Potential:

Assignment

1. Calculate the potential at a point ‘P’ due to a charge of located 9cm


away. Also find the work done in bringing a charge of 2 x 10 C from infinity to
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the point ‘P’. [ 4 x 104V ; 8 x 10-5J ]


2. A metal wire is bent in a circle of radius 10cm. It is given a charge of
which spreads on it uniformly. Calculate the electric potential at its centre.
[ 18 x 106 V ]
3. To what potential we must charge an insulated sphere of radius 14cm so that
the surface charge density is equal to . [ 15840 V ]
4. Twenty - seven drops of same size are charged at 220V each. They coalesce
to form a bigger drop. Calculate the potential of the bigger drop. [ 1980 V ]

5. Two charges 3x10-8 C and -2x10-8 C are located 15cm apart. At what point on
the line joining the two charges is the electric potential zero? [9cm or 45cm]

6. Two points A and B are located in diametrically opposite directions of a point


charge of at distances 2.0m and 1.0m respectively from it. Determine
the potential difference VA-VB. [ -9 x 103 V ]

7. The sides of a rectangle ABCD are 15cm and 5cm. Point charges of
and are placed at the vertices A and C. Also calculate the work done in
carrying a charge of from A to C. [ -7.8x105V, 0.6x105V, 2.52 J ]

8. Positive charges of 6,12, and 24 nC are placed at the three vertices of a


square. What charge must be placed at the fourth vertex so that the total
potential at the centre of the square is zero. [ -42 nC ]

9. ABC is a right angled triangle where AB and BC are 25cm & 60cm
respectively. A metal sphere of 2cm radius charged to a potential of 9x10 5V is
placed at B. Find the amount of work done in carrying a positive charge of
from C to A? [ 0.042 J ]

10. Calculate the voltage needed to balance an oil drop carrying 10electrons
when located between the plates of a capacitor which are 5mm apart
[ g =10ms-2 ]. The mass of the oil drop is 3x10-16 kg. [ 9.47 V ]

11. An infinite plane sheet of charge density 10 -8Cm-2 is held in air. In this situation
how far apart are two equipotential surfaces whose P.D is 5V.
[8.85mm]
12. If the potential in the region of space around the point (-1,2,3)m is given by
volt, calculate the three components of electric field at
this point. [ Ex = 20 V/m ; Ey = -20 V/m ; Ez = 18 V/m ]
13. Figure shows some equipotential surfaces. What is the electric fields

magnitude and direction? [ ; radially outward ]

14. Figure shows some equipotential surfaces. What can you say about the
magnitude and direction of the electric field?
[ E = 200 V/m & = 1200 with the +ve X-axis ]

15. The electric potential ‘V’ at any point x, y, z in space is given by V = 4x 2 volt.
Calculate the electric field at point (1,0,2) m. [ V/m ]

16. The electric field outside a charged long straight wire is given by V/m
and is directed outwards. What is the sign of the charge on the wire? If the
two points A and B are situated such that rA = 0.2m and rB = 0.4m , find the
value of (VA – VB). [ -693.1 volt ]

17. Three concentric metallic shells A,B,C of radii a, b, c ( a < b < c) have surface
charge densities respectively as shown.
a) Find potential of three shells A,B,C
b) If shells A and C are at same potential, obtain the relation between radii a,b,c.

{ ; ; ; }
18. An infinite number of charges each equal to ‘q’ are placed along the X-axis at
x = 1; x = 2; x = 4 ……….. and so on.
a) Find the potential at x = o due to this set of charges.
b) What will be the potential if in the above setup, the consecutive charges

have opposite sign. ( , )


19. Three charges Q, +q and +q are placed at the vertices of a right angled
isosceles triangle as shown. The net electrostatic energy will be zero if ‘Q’ is

equal to …………………. [ ]
20. Three charges -q, +Q & -q are placed at equal distances on a straight line. If
the potential energy of the system of three charges is zero, find the ratio Q/q?
[1:4]
21. Two electrons , each moving with a velocity of 10 m/s are released towards
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each other. What will be the closest distance of approach between them.
[ 2.53 x 10-10 m ]
22. An electric dipole of length 2cm is placed with its axis making an angle of 60 0
to a uniform electric field of 105 N/C. If it experiences a torque of Nm,
calculate the
a) Magnitude of the charge on the dipole. [8 x 10-3 C]
b) Potential energy of the system [ -8 J ]

23. An electron is placed at each of the eight corners of a cube of side ‘a’ and an
- particle at the centre of a cube. Calculate the potential energy of the
system. [ 3.89 x 1010 e2/a J ]

24. Find the amount of work done in rotating an electric dipole of moment
3 x 10-8 Cm, from its position of stable equilibrium to the position of unstable
equilibrium in a uniform electric field of intensity 10 4 N/C. [ 6.4 x 10-4 J ]

25. Find the PE associated with a charge ‘q’ if it were present at the point P with
respect to the set up of two charged spheres , arranged as shown in figure.
Here ‘O’ is the midpoint of line O1O2. (Radius of Q1 = a and Q2 = b)

*** Key for every question is given at the end of every question in
Square Brackets in Bold Letters.

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