Coulomb's Law

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Coulomb's Law: Overview

This topic covers concepts such as electrostatic force between two charges in vacuum, permittivity of vacuum, dielectric constant of a medium, Coulomb's law, and Coulomb's law in vector form.

Important Questions on Coulomb's Law

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Two protons move parallel to each other, keeping distance r between them, both moving with same velocity V . Then the ratio of the electric and magnetic force of interaction between them is

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Two fixed point charges   +4eand+e  units are separated by a distance ‘a’. Where should the third point charge be placed for it to be in equilibrium?

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How does the coulomb force between two point charges depend upon the dielectric constant of the intervening medium?

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What is C in physics Coulombs law ?

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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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 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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Three particles of charges 1×10-8 C, 8.0×10-8 C and 27×10-8 C are kept fixed on the x-axis at point x=10 cm, 20 cm and 30 cm respectively. The magnitude of the electric force acting on a 1 C charge placed at x=0. (Assume 14πε0=9×109 N C-2 m2)

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

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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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Ravi rubs a plastic comb on his dry hair and then places it near a water stream. The stream of water is seen to bend towards the plastic comb. Which force is behind this event?

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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.

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Two small identical balls each of mass and charge q are suspended same point by silk cords (each cord is of length l) as shown in fig. separation between charges is x and angle between cords (2θ 10°). Calculate the value of x assuming system to be in equilibrium.

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Two identical spherical conductors B and C carry equal like charges and repel each other by a force F when placed at a certain distance apart. Another identical conductor which is uncharged is made into contact with B then with C and removed away from B and C. Find the new force acting between B and C.

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Two identical metallic spheres are charged with +10μCand -20μC. If they are brought into contact and then kept at the same separation as earlier, then find the ratio of forces in final and initial situations.