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Which of the following figure represents the electric field lines due to a single positive charge?

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Important Questions on Electric Charges and Fields

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Two metal plates having a potential difference of 800 V are 2 cm apart. It is found that a particle of mass 1.96×10-15 kg remains suspended in the region between the plates. The charge on the particle must be (e= elementary charge)
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A long cylindrical shell carries positive surface charge σ in the upper half and negative surface charge σ in the lower half. The electric field lines around the cylinder will look like figure given in:

(figures are schematic and not drawn to scale)
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A spherical conductor of radius 10 cm has a charge of 3.2×107 C distributed uniformly. What is the magnitude of electric field at a point 15 cm from the centre of the sphere?
14πε0=9×109 Nm2 C-2
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Point charges +q and -q are located at the vertices of a square with diagonals 2l as shown in the figure. The magnitude of the electric field strength at a point, located symmetrically with respect to the vertices of the square at a distance x from its center is

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The magnitude of the average electric field normally present in the atmosphere just above the surface of the Earth is about 150 N/C, directed inward towards the center of the Earth. This gives the total net surface charge carried by the Earth to be : [Given : O = 8.85 × 1 0 - 1 2   C 2 / N-m 2 ,   R E = 6.37 × 1 0 6 m ]
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The electric field lines on the left have twice the separation on those on the right as shown in figure. If the magnitude of the field at A is 40 Vm-1, what is  the force on 20 μC charge kept at

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Charges Q1 and Q2 are at points A and B of a right-angled triangle OAB. The resultant electric field at point O is perpendicular to the hypotenuse, then Q1/Q2 is proportional to:

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A cube of side a has point charges +Q located at each of its vertices except at the origin where the charge is -Q. The electric field at the centre of cube is:

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The electric field in a region of space is given by, E=E0i^+2E0j^ where E0=100 N C-1. The flux of this field through a circular surface of radius 0.02 m parallel to the YZ plane is nearly
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The bob of a simple pendulum has mass 2 g and a charge of 5.0 μC. It is at rest in a uniform horizontal electric field of intensity 2000 V/m At equilibrium, the angle that the pendulum makes with the vertical is:
takeg=10 m/s2
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Two identical charged spheres separated by a distance repel each other with a force F. If 10 % of electrons are transferred from one sphere to the other than the force between them becomes
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A charged particle initially at rest at O, when released follows a trajectory as shown. Such a trajectory is possible in the presence of
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Figure shows three arrangements of electric field lines. In each arrangement, a proton is released from rest at point A and then accelerated through point B by the electric field. Points A and B have equal separations in the three arrangements. If p1,p2 and p3 are linear momentum of the proton at point B in the three arrangement respectively, then

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A point charge q is placed at the corner of a cube of side a as shown in the figure. What is the electric flux through the face ABCD ?

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The magnitude of point charge due to which the electric field 30 cm away has the magnitude 2 NC-1 will be
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An oil drop of the radius 2 mm with a density 3 g cm-3 is held stationary under a constant electric field 3.55×105 V m-1 in the Millikan's oil drop experiment. What is the number of excess electrons that the oil drop will possess? consider g=9.81 m s-2.
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A charge q is placed at one corner of a cube as shown in figure. The flux of electrostatic field E through the shaded area is:

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Two charged thin infinite plane sheets of uniform charge density σ+ and σ-, where σ+>σ, intersect at the right angle. Which of the following best represents the electric field lines for the system:
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Four closed surfaces and corresponding charge distributions are shown below.

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Let the respective electric fluxes through the surfaces be ϕ1, ϕ2, ϕ3 and ϕ4. Then:
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The electric field in a certain region is acting radially outward and is given by E=Ar. A charge contained in a sphere of radius a centred at the origin of the field will be given by