
The diagram shows a small bead of mass carrying charge . The bead can freely move on the smooth fixed ring placed on a smooth horizontal plane. In the same plane a charge has also been fixed as shown. The potential at the point due to is . The velocity with which the bead should projected from the point so that is can complete a circle should be greater than




Important Questions on Electric Potential
A point charge is placed at point at a distance from the centre of an uncharged thin conducting shell of radius as shown in the figure. If be the potential at point , which is at a radial distance of from the centre of the shell, then


Two point charges and are placed in an external uniform electric field as shown in figure. The potential at the location of and are and , respectively. The effect of and is not included in and , i.e., and are potentials at location of and due to external unspecified charges only. Then electric potential energy for this configuration of two charged particle is




A negative charge is moved by an external agent in the direction of electric field. Then

