
Two identical small balls each have a mass and charge When placed in a hemispherical bowl of radius with frictionless, nonconductive walls, the beads move, and at equilibrium the line joining the balls is horizontal and the distance between them is (see figure). Neglect any induced charge on the hemispherical bowl. Then the charge on each bead is



Important Questions on Electrostatics
A thin semi-circular ring of radius has a positive charge distributed uniformly over it. The net field at the centre is



A solid cylindrical insulator of uniform density having length and radius contains charge . Find the value of the electric field at a distance along the axis from one end. ()


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,

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
