HARD
12th West Bengal Board
IMPORTANT
Earn 100

Deduce the capacitance an isolated conducting sphere. Then find the capacitance spherical capacitor consisting of two hollow concentric spheres of radii r1 and r2r1>r2. Now show that a conducting sphere may be regarded as a spherical capacitor where outer sphere is at infinity.

Important Questions on Capacitance and Capacitors

HARD
12th West Bengal Board
IMPORTANT
Explain how a capacitor is charged by a cell. Calculate the energy of a charged capacitor. Show that only half of energy expended by a cell is stored up as electrostatic energy. What happens to the other half?
HARD
12th West Bengal Board
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Considering the situation of a parallel plate capacitor, explain what happens when an insulating material is inserted into the space between the two plates of a parallel plate capacitor. What is polarisation of dielectric? Explain why polarisation of the dielectric increases the capacitance of the capacitor.
MEDIUM
12th West Bengal Board
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Calculate the energy of charged parallel plate capacitor. Express the energy in terms of electric field. Now calculate the energy density. Can this result be generalised ?
EASY
12th West Bengal Board
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Is the electric field between the two plates uniform? Why guard-ring is used in parallel plate capacitors?
EASY
12th West Bengal Board
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A capacitor is connected across a battery. Why does each plate receives a charge of exactly the same magnitude? Is this true even if the plates have different areas?
EASY
12th West Bengal Board
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Two capacitors of capacitance C1 and C2 having charges Q1 and Q2 are joined together with

positive plate of one connected to the positive plate of the other, Find the potential difference across both the capacitors.

 

EASY
12th West Bengal Board
IMPORTANT

Two capacitors of capacitance C1 and C2 having charges Q1 and Q2 are joined together with

positive plate of one connected to the negative plate of the other. Find the common potential in the two cases.

HARD
12th West Bengal Board
IMPORTANT
Deduce the capacitance of a cylindrical capacitor consisting of two coaxial cylinders of radii r1 and r2r1<r2.