
Two plates are 20 cm apart and the potential difference between them is 10 V. The electric field between the plates is

Important Questions on Electrostatics

Which one of the following figures correctly indicates the induced charge distribution in the conductor (ignore edge effects).




Three concentric spherical shells are arranged as shown in the figure. The innermost and outermost spheres are connected to earth. If the middle sphere is given a charge . the charges induced in the innermost and outermost spheres respectively are


What is the value of current at

Given below are two statements.
Statement I : Electric potential is constant within and at the surface of each conductor.
Statement II : Electric field just outside a charged conductor is perpendicular to the surface of the conductor at every point.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options give below.

Two identical parallel plate capacitors of capacitance each are connected in series with a battery of emf, as shown. If one of the capacitors is now filled with a dielectric of dielectric constant , the amount of charge which will flow through the battery is (neglect internal resistance of the battery)

A hollow conducting sphere is placed in an electric field produced by a point charge placed at as shown in figure. Let be the potentials at points and , respectively. Then

A spherical conductor is placed concentrically inside a hollow spherical conductor . The charge is given to and is earthed. Then the electric field is not zero






An electron enters a parallel plate capacitor with horizontal speed and is found to deflect by angle on leaving the capacitor as shown. It is found that and gravity is negligible.
If the initial horizontal speed is doubled, then will be:

A parallel plate capacitor is made of two circular plates separated by a distance of 5 mm and with a dielectric of dielectric constant 2.2 between them. When the electric field in the dielectric is , the charge density of the positive plate will be close to :




Consider an initially neutral hollow conducting spherical shell with inner radius and outer radius A point charge is now placed inside the shell at a distance from the center. The shell is then grounded by connecting the outer surface to the earth. P is an external point at a distance from the point charge on the line passing through the center and the point charge as shown in the figure.
The magnitude of the force on a test charge placed at P will be

