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To measure the capacitance of a conductor, it is first charged to a potential V0=1350 V. It is then connected by a conducting wire to a distant metal sphere of radius r=3 cm. As result the conductor's potential drops to V1=900 V. Choose the correct option(s).

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Important Questions on Electrostatics

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A capacitor of capacitance 4μF is charged to a potential of 100 V. It is then disconnected from the battery and connected in parallel with another capacitor C2. If their common potential is 40 volts, then the value of C2 is
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Two rods of copper and iron with the same cross-sectional area are joined at S and a steady current I flows through the rods as shown in the figure.
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Choose the most appropriate representation of charges accumulated near the junction S.

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A capacitor is connected to a 20 V battery through a resistance of 10Ω. It is found that the potential difference across the capacitor rises to 2 V in 1 μs. The capacitance of the capacitor is ________μF.
Given In 109=0.105
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The charge on a capacitor plate in a circuit, as a function of time, is shown in the figure:
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What is the value of current at t=4 s?
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A capacitor of capacitance C charged by an amount Q is connected in parallel with an uncharged capacitor of capacitance 2C. The final charges on the capacitors are
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In the circuit shown, the switch S is initially closed for a long time. The switch is now opened so that the capacitor gets charged.

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The time constant of the circuit is

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An initially uncharged capacitor C is being charged by a battery of emf E through a resistance R upto the instant when the capacitor is charged to the potential E/2, the ratio of the work done by the battery to the heat dissipated by the resistor is given by:-
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In the circuit shown in the figure, the total charge is 750 μC and the voltage across capacitor C2 is 20 V. Then the charge on capacitor C2 is :

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In the given circuit diagram,

E=5 V, r=1 Ω, R2=4 Ω, R1=R3=1 Ω and C=3 μF

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Then, what will be the numerical value of charge on each plates of the capacitor.

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An electric bulb, a capacitor, a battery and a switch are all in series in a circuit. How does the intensity of light vary when the switch is turn on?
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Two identical conducting spheres A and B carry an equal charges. They are separated by a distance much larger than their diameters, and the force between them is F. A third identical conducting sphere, C, is uncharged. Sphere C is first touched to A, then to B, and then removed. As a result, the force between A and B would be equal to:
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A capacitor is charged by a battery. The battery is removed and another identical uncharged capacitor is connected in parallel. The total electrostatic energy of resulting system
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Two identical metallic spheres A and B when placed at certain distance in air repel each other with a force of F. Another identical uncharged sphere C is first placed in contact with A and then in contact with B and finally placed at midpoint between spheres Aand B. The force experienced by sphere C will be :
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As shown in the figure below, if a capacitor C is charged by connecting it with resistance R, then energy given by the battery will be

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Two isolated metallic solid spheres of radii R and 2R are charged such that both have same charge density σ . The spheres are then connected by a thin conducting wire. If the new charge density of the bigger sphere is σ'. The ratio σ'σ is :
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As shown in the figure, two particles, each of mass 'm' tied at the ends of a light string of length 2a are kept on a frictionless horizontal surface. When the mid point (P) of the string is pulled vertically upwards with a small but constant force F, the particles move towards each other on the surface. Magnitude of acceleration of each particle, when the separation between them becomes 2x is

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A neutral spherical copper particle has a radius of 10 nm1 nm=10-9 m. It gets charged by applying the voltage slowly adding one electron at a time. Then, the graph of the total charge on the particle versus the applied voltage would look like
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In the given circuit, the charge on 4μF capacitor will be:
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A capacitor of μF is charged as shown in the diagram. When the switch S is turned to position 2, the percentage of its stored energy dissipated is

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