Gauss’s Law

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Gauss’s Law: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as, Electric Flux, Area Vector, Electric Field inside the Overlapping Region of Two Oppositely Charged Spheres & Electric Field inside the Cylindrical Cavity of Uniformly Charged Cylinder etc.

Important Questions on Gauss’s Law

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The SI unit of electrical flux is:

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The electric field components due to a charge inside the cube of side 0.1 m are as shown:

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  E x =αx , where  α=500 N C-1m-1

  E y =0, E z =0 .

Calculate (i) the flux through the cube, and (ii) the charge inside the cube.

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Which law is used to derive the expression for the electric field between two uniformly charged large parallel sheets with surface charge densities σ and σ respectively:

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Applying Gauss theorem, the expression for the electric field intensity at a point due to an infinitely long, thin, uniformly charged straight wire is

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Assertion (A): In a region of constant potential, the electric field is zero and there can be no charge inside the region.

Reason (R): According to Gauss law. charge inside the region should be zero if electric field is zero.

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A solid sphere of radius R carries a positive charge Q distributed uniformly throughout its volume. A very thin hole is drilled through it's center. A particle of mass m and charge -q performs simple harmonic motion about the center of the sphere in this hole. The frequency of oscillation is

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A hollow charged metal sphere has radius r. If the potential difference between its surface and a point at a distance 3r from the centre is V, then electric field intensity at a distance 3r is:

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A cylinder of radius R and length L is placed in a uniform electric field E parallel to the cylinder axis. The total flux for the surface of the cylinder is given by

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An 100eV electron is fired directly towards a large metal plate having surface charge density -2×10-6 C m-2. The distance from where the electron be projected so that it just fails to strike the plate is

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A circular plate sheet of radius 10 cm is placed in a uniform electric field of 23×105 N C-1, making an angle of 60° with the field. Then find the electric flux through the sheet.

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A hollow cylinder has a charge q coulomb within it. If ϕ is the electric flux in units of Volt meter associated with the curved surface B, the flux linked with the plane surface A in units of Volt meter will be

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The  SI unit of electric flux is:

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A parallel plate capacitor has two square plates with equal and opposite charges. The surface charge densities on the plates are +σ and σ respectively. In the region between the plates the magnitude of the electric field is

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The potential (in volts) of a charge distribution is given by

Vz=30-5z2 for z1 m

Vz=35-10 z for Z1 m .

V(z) does not depend on x and y. If this potential is generated by a constant charge per unit volume ρ0 (in units of ϵ0 ) which is spread over a certain region, then choose the correct statement.

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The  SI unit of electric flux is:

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The ratio of electric field intensity at P & Q in the shown arrangement is


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A charge Q is placed at a distance a2 above the centre of a square surface of side length a. The electric flux through the square surface due to the charge would be?
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The net flux passing through the surface of an imaginary cube of edge length a placed in space having a uniform volume charge density, is ϕ. The net flux passing through the surface of an imaginary sphere of radius a in the same space is

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Consider a uniformly charged solid cylinder of large length and radius R. Now consider a cylindrical surface of radius 2R and length 2R coaxial with cylinder and electric flux through cylindrical surface is ϕ0. Now consider a spherical surface of radius 2R and one of the diameter along axis of cylinder and electric flux through spherical surface is ϕ. Find 10ϕϕ0 to the nearest integer.

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In the shown figure a hemisphere is placed and two charges 3q and 9q are placed symmetrically about centre O. Net electric flux over curved surface is given as N1qN2ε0, where N1 and N2 are lowest possible integers then value of N1+N2 is :

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