
A block of mass is suspended vertically with a spring of spring constant The block is made to oscillate in a gravitation field. Its time period is found to be Now the space between the plates is made gravity free and an electric field is produced in the downward direction. Now the block is given a charge The new time period of oscillation is,




Important Questions on Electrostatics
A thin glass rod is bent into a semicircle of radius . A charge is uniformly distributed along the upper half, and a charge is uniformly distributed along the lower half, as shown in figure. The electric field at , the centre of the semicircle, is

Find the electric field vector at due to three infinitely long lines of charges along the -, - and – axes, respectively. The charge density, i.e., charge per unit length of each wire is

Two semicircular rings lying in same plane, of uniform linear charge density have radius and . They are joined using two straight uniformly charged wires of linear charge density and length as shown in figure. The magnitude of electric field at common centre of semi circular rings is


If the electric potential of the inner shell is volt and that of the outer shell is volt, then the potential at the centre will be: (the shells are uniformly charged)



Two concentric uniformly charged spheres of radius and are arranged as shown in the figure. The potential difference between the spheres is,
