CBSE

Test Paper-03
Class - 12 Physics (Electric Charges and Fields)

1. Gauss's law states that

a. the total electric field flux coming out of an open surface equals the net charge
enclosed within the volume divided by
b. the total electric field flux coming out of any surface equals the charge enclosed
within the volume divided by
c. the total electric field flux coming out of a closed surface in vacuum equals the net
charge enclosed within the volume divided by
d. the total electric field flux coming out of a closed surface equals the net charge
enclosed within the volume

2. An electric dipole with dipole moment m is aligned at with the

a.
b.
c.
d.

3. There is a uniform field of strength along the y-axis. A body of mass 1g and
charge C is projected into the field from the origin along the positive x-axis with
a velocity of . Its speed (in after 10 second will be (neglect gravitation)

a.
b. 20.0
c.
d. 10.0

4. Careful measurement of the electric field at the surface of a black box indicates that
the net outward flux through the surface of the box is .

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 (i) What is the net charge inside the box?
(ii) If the net outward flux through the surface of the box were zero, could you
conclude that there were no charges inside the box?

a. 0.04 , Yes
b. 0.06 , Yes
c. 0.05 , No
d. 0.07 , No

5. A pendulum bob of mass m carrying a charge q is at rest with its string making an
angle θ with the vertical in a uniform horizontal electric field E. The tension in the
string is

a.
b. mg
c.
d.

6. What is the relevance of large value of K (= 81) for water?

7. Does motion of a body affect its charge?

8. Why does an ebonite rod get negatively charged on rubbing with fur?

9. Can a charged body attract another uncharged body? Explain.

10. A uniformly charged conducting sphere of 2.4 m diameter has a surface charge

density of 80.0 µCm-2.

i. Find the charge on the sphere.

11. Dielectric constant of a medium is unity. What will be its permittivity?

12. A polythene piece rubbed with wool is found to have a negative charge of
.

a. Estimate the number of electrons transferred (from which to which)?

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 b. Is there a transfer of mass from wool to polythene?

13. A positive point charge (+q) is kept in the vicinity of an uncharged conducting plate.
Sketch electric field lines originating from the point on to the surface of the plate.
Derive the expression for the electric field at the surface of a charged conductor.

14. A conducting sphere of radius 10 cm has an unknown charge. If the electric field 20
cm from the centre of the sphere is and points radially inward, what
is the net charge on the sphere?

15. i. An electric dipole of dipole moment p consists of point charges +qand -q separated
by a distance 2a apart. Deduce the expression for the electric field E due to the
dipole at a distance x from the centre of the dipole on its axial line in terms of the
dipole moment p .Hence, show that in the limit .
ii. Given the electric field in the region , find the net electric flux through
the cube and the charge enclosed by it.

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 CBSE Test Paper-03
Class - 12 Physics (Electric Charges and Fields)
Answers

1. c. the total electric field flux coming out of a closed surface in vacuum equals the
net charge enclosed within the volume divided by
Explanation: Gauss Theorem- According to Gauss theorem the electric flux
through a closed surface in vacuum is given by times net charge enclosed
within the surface.

2. a.
Explanation:

3. a. Explanation: Given vx=10m/s, since the electric field is in y-direction so

the acceleration is in y-direction

So velocity in y direction vy = at = 1 vx = 10m/s

So

4. d. 0.07 , No
Explanation:

a. Net outward flux through the surface of the box, ϕ = 8.0 × 103 N m2/C
For a body containing net charge q,

flux is given by the relation, = Permittivity of free space = 8.854 × 10-12 N-

We have So, q
= 0.07 μC Therefore, the net
charge inside the box is 0.07 μC.
b. No Net flux piercing out through a body depends on the net charge
contained in the body. If net flux is zero, then it can be inferred that net
charge inside the body is zero. The body may have equal amount of positive
and negative charges.

5. c.

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 Explanation:

For equilibrium, TCos ; TSin , Hence,

6. It makes water a great solvent. This is because binding force of attraction between
oppositely charged ions of the substance in water becomes 1/81 of the force between
these ions in air.

7. No, charge on a body does not change with motion of the body.

8. Electrons are lost by fur while ebonite rod gains them. Electrons in fur are less tightly
bound than electrons in ebonite.

9. Yes, a charged body can attract another uncharged body. When the charged body is
placed near the uncharged body, the induced charges of opposite kind are produced
on the uncharged body and the uncharged body is attract by charged body.

10. i. Data Given -

Charge on the sphere(q)

ii. Gauss’s law states that the net flux of an electric field in a closed surface is directly
proportional to the enclosed electric charge. It is one of the four equations of
Maxwell’s laws of electromagnetism
Electric flux,

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 The electric flux is defined as the electric field passing through a given area
multiplied by the area of the surface in a plane perpendicular to the field.

11. We know that dielectric constant of a medium is

12. a. Given,

number of electrons transferred

Electrons are transferred from wool to polythene during rubbing as polythene has
negative charge.
b. From wool to polythene, certainly there is a transfer of mass.
Mass of an electron
Thus, amount of mass transferred

13.

Electric lines of forces should fall/ normally 90° away on/ from the conducting plate.
Electric field lines are always perpendicular to the surface of the conductor and given
by

14. Given, r = 10cm = 0.1m

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 As
then,

or,

or,

Here, q is negative since electric field is directed inward.

15. An electric dipole is a separation of positive and negative charges. The simplest
example of this is a pair of electric charges of equal magnitude but opposite sign,
separated by some (usually small) distance.Electric field on an axial line of an electric
dipole can be calculated by computing the electric field due to both the charges and
adding them vectorally given the angle between them.

Let P be a point at distance r from the centre of the dipole on the side of charge - q so
its distance from +q will be r+d and from +q its distance will be r-d.
Then, the Electric field at point P due to charge - q of the dipole is given by,

where, is the unit vector along the dipole axis (from -q to q) as shown in the figure
Also, the electric field at point P due to charge +q of the dipole is given by,

The total field at point P will be the vector sum of all the electric fields

For x >> a,

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so electric field due a dipole decreases as cube of the distance from the centre of the
dipole.

i.

As per the problem, electric field has only x component, for faces normal to X -
direction, the angle between E and Therefore, the flux is separately
zero for each of the cube except the shaded ones. The magnitude of the electric
field at the left face will be
​ (as, x = O at the left face).
The magnitude of the electric field at the right face is ER = 3a (as, x = a at the right

face).
The corresponding fluxes are

Net flux through the cube

Statement of Gauss's law is that the net flux of an electric field through a surface
divided by the enclosed charge is equal to a constant.

that's how we can find the charge which resides inside the cube and 2a3ε0 is the

amount of charge that resides in the cube which is the direct application of gauss law
as first flux was calculated then it was related to internal charge multiplied by
permittivity of free space.

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