Coulomb's Laws

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Coulomb's Laws: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as, Electrostatic Force between Two Charges in Vacuum, Coulomb's Law, Inverse Square Law, Coulomb's Law in Vector Form, Permittivity of Vacuum, Permittivity of a Medium & Dielectric Constant of a Medium etc.

Important Questions on Coulomb's Laws

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Three point charges lie on a straight line, as shown in the figure. Find the magnitude of resultant force exerted on the -2 μC charge in newton.

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Two conducting spheres of radii 3 cm and 1 cm are separated by a distance of 10 cm in free space. If the spheres are charged to same potential of 10 V each, the force of  repulsion between them is

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The centres of two identical small conducting spheres are 1 m apart. They carry charges of opposite kind and attract each other with a force F. When they are connected by a conducting thin wire they repel each other with a force F3. What is the ratio of the magnitude of charges carried by the spheres initially?

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A charge Q is placed at each of the two opposite corners of a square. A charge q is placed at each of the other two corners. If the resultant force on Q is zero, then

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Electric charges of 1 μC,-1 μC and 2 μC are placed in air at the corners A,B and C respectively of an equilateral triangle ABC having length of each side 10 cm. The resultant force on the charge at C is

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Two identical conducting spheres with negligible volume have 2.1 nC and -0.1 nC charges, respectively. They are brought into contact and then separated by a distance of 0.5 m. The electrostatic force acting between the spheres is ×10-9 N. [Given : 4πε0=19×109 SI unit ]

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Two small spheres each of mass 10 mg are suspended from a point by threads 0.5 m long. They are equally charged and repel each other to a distance of 0.20 m. Then charge on each of the sphere is a21×10-8 C. The value of 'a' will be __________ .

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A charge +q is situated at a distance 'd' away from both the sides of a grounded conducting 'L' shaped sheet as shown in the figure.

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The force acting on the charge +q is

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The force of attraction between two charges 8 μC and -4 μC is 0.2 N. Find the distance of separation (in metre):

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A charge Q1 exerts force on a second charge Q2. If a third charge Q3 is brought near, the force of Q1 exerted on Q2

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 As per Coulomb's law, the force of attraction or repulsion between two point charges is directly proportional to the

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The Dielectric constant of a medium is the ratio of the permittivity of the substance to the permittivity of free space

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Two point charges are kept in air with a separation between them. The force between them is F1, if half of the space between the charges is filled with a dielectric of dielectric constant 4 and the force between them is F2, if 13rd of the space between the charges is filled with dielectric of dielectric constant 9. Then F1 F2 is

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When distance between two-point charges is increased by 10%, the force of interaction

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Point charges of +6μC and -4μC are placed on x-axis at x=8 m and x=16 m respectively. What magnitude of charge (in μC) must be placed at x=-8 m, so that any charge kept at origin experiences no electrostatic force.

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Two point charges + 3 μC and + 8 μC repel each other with a force of 40 N. If a charge of 5 μC is added to each of them, then the magnitude of the force between them and nature of force is/are:

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The force between two small charged spheres having charges of 1×10-7 C and 2×10-7 C placed 20 cm apart in air is _____.

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Two point charges A and B, having charges +Q and -Q respectively, are placed at certain distance apart and force acting between them is F. If  25% charge of A is transferred to B, then the force between the charges becomes

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Two point charges + 3 μC and + 8 μC repel each other with a force of 40 N. If a charge of 5 μC is added to each of them, then the force between them will become:

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The separation between two point charges q1 and q2 is 3 m. The sum of the two charges is 20 μC and they repel each other by a force of 0.075 N. Find the value of the two charges.