Coulomb's Laws
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
Three point charges lie on a straight line, as shown in the figure. Find the magnitude of resultant force exerted on the charge in newton.

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

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

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

Electric charges of and are placed in air at the corners and respectively of an equilateral triangle having length of each side The resultant force on the charge at is

Two identical conducting spheres with negligible volume have and charges, respectively. They are brought into contact and then separated by a distance of The electrostatic force acting between the spheres is Given : SI unit

Two small spheres each of mass are suspended from a point by threads long. They are equally charged and repel each other to a distance of Then charge on each of the sphere is The value of will be __________ .

A charge is situated at a distance '' away from both the sides of a grounded conducting '' shaped sheet as shown in the figure.
The force acting on the charge is

The force of attraction between two charges and is . Find the distance of separation (in metre):

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

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

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

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

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

Point charges of and are placed on -axis at and respectively. What magnitude of charge (in ) must be placed at so that any charge kept at origin experiences no electrostatic force.

Two point charges and repel each other with a force of . If a charge of is added to each of them, then the magnitude of the force between them and nature of force is/are:

The force between two small charged spheres having charges of and placed apart in air is _____.

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

Two point charges and repel each other with a force of . If a charge of is added to each of them, then the force between them will become:

The separation between two point charges and is . The sum of the two charges is and they repel each other by a force of . Find the value of the two charges.
