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Due to polarisation of a dielectric slab filling the gap between capacitor plates, the charge induced is 80% that of the charge appearing on the capacitor plate. The dielectric constant of the slab material is

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Five balls numbered 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 are suspended using separate threads. The balls 1, 2, 2, 4 and 4, 1 show electrostatic attraction, while balls 2, 3 and 4, 5 show repulsion. Therefore, ball 1 must be-
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Three charges +Q1, +Q2 and q are placed on a straight line such that q is somewhere in between +Q1 and +Q2. If this system of charges is in equilibrium, what should be the magnitude and sign of charge q?
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Three identical spheres, each having a charge q and radius R, are kept in such a way that each touches the other two. The magnitude of the electric force on any sphere due to the other two is
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Let ρ(r)=QπR4r be the charge density distribution for a solid sphere of radius R and total charge Q. For a point p inside the sphere at a distance r1 from the centre of the sphere, the magnitude of electric field is,
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A dipole of dipole moment p=(2i^-3j^+4k^) cm is kept at a point A whose coordinates are (1,-1,3). If an external electric field E=(5i^+2j^-3k^) V m-1 is applied then the potential energy of the dipole be,

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An electric dipole is placed in a uniform electric field E of magnitude 40 N C-1. The graph below shows the magnitude of the torque on the dipole versus the angle θ between the field E and the dipole moment p. The magnitude of dipole moment p is equal to

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An electric dipole has a fixed dipole moment p which makes angle θ with respect to x-axis. When subjected to an electric field E1=Ei^, it experiences a torque T1=τk^. When subjected to another electric field E2=3Ej^, it experiences torque T2=-T1. The angle θ is, 
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Find the potential energy of an electric dipole of length 20 cm having ±3×10-3 C charge placed at 60° with respect to a uniform electric field and experiencing a torque of magnitude 6 N m.