Ideal Coaching Centre Weekend assignment # 3 Q1.

Draw the pattern of electric field lines due to (a) q > 0 and (b) q < 0. Q2. Sketch the electric lines of forces due to two equal positive charges placed near each other. Q3. Sketch the electric lines of force of a positive point charge placed close to a negative point charge of the same magnitude Q4. Two point charges q1 and q2 are at a distance d apart such that there is no point where the field vanishes. What can be concluded from it? Q5. Does an electric charge experience force due to its own electric field? Q6. Define electric dipole moment. Is it scalar or vector quantity? What is its direction? Q7. What is point (ideal) dipole? Give example. Q8. What is the dipole moment of non-polar molecules? (Zero) Q9. A dipole is placed in a uniform electric field. What is the net force actin on the dipole? Q10. When is the torque acting on a dipole maximum? Q11. Will a dipole placed in uniform electric field have translational motion? Give reason. Ans.: A body possesses translational motion only when a net force acts on it. In uniform electric field, net force is always zero. Therefore, dipole will not have any translational motion. Q12. Will a dipole placed in non-uniform electric field have translational motion? Give reason. Ans.: A body possesses translational motion only when a net force acts on it. In nonuniform electric field, net force is always non-zero. Therefore, dipole will have both translational and rotational motion. Q13. What is direction of electric field along axial line of dipole? Q14. What is direction of electric field along equatorial line of dipole? Q15. What is the relation between electric field intensity and electric flux? Q16. Define electric flux. Is it scalar or vector? Give its SI unit. Q17. State Gauss law of electrostatics. Q18. What is direction of area vector? Q19. How much is the electric flux through a closed surface due to a charge lying outside the closed surface? Q20. An electric dipole of dipole moment 20 x 10 8 Cm is placed inside a Gaussian surface. What is the net flux coming out of this surface? Q21. If the radius of Gaussian surface enclosing a charge at its centre is halved, how does the electric flux through the Gaussian surface change? Q22. Why do charge resides on the surface of a conducting surface? Q23. Why is electric field zero inside a conducting sphere? Q24. During lightening, why it is considered safest to be inside a car with windows closed? Q25. What is electrostatic shielding? Ans.: The phenomenon of making a region free from electric field is called electrostatic shielding. It is based on the fact that electric field vanishes inside the cavity of hollow conductor. Q26. The force on an electron kept in an electric field in a particular direction is F. What will be the magnitude and direction of the force experienced by a proton at the same point in the field? Ans.: A proton has charge equal and opposite to that of electron. Therefore it will experience same force but in opposite direction.

Ideal Coaching Centre Weekend assignment # 3 Q1. Draw the pattern of electric field lines due to (a) q > 0 and (b) q < 0. Q2. Sketch the electric lines of forces due to two equal positive charges placed near each other. Q3. Sketch the electric lines of force of a positive point charge placed close to a negative point charge of the same magnitude Q4. Two point charges q1 and q2 are at a distance d apart such that there is no point where the field vanishes. What can be concluded from it? Q5. Does an electric charge experience force due to its own electric field? Q6. Define electric dipole moment. Is it scalar or vector quantity? What is its direction? Q7. What is point (ideal) dipole? Give example. Q8. What is the dipole moment of non-polar molecules? (Zero) Q9. A dipole is placed in a uniform electric field. What is the net force actin on the dipole? Q10. When is the torque acting on a dipole maximum? Q11. Will a dipole placed in uniform electric field have translational motion? Give reason. Ans.: A body possesses translational motion only when a net force acts on it. In uniform electric field, net force is always zero. Therefore, dipole will not have any translational motion. Q12. Will a dipole placed in non-uniform electric field have translational motion? Give reason. Ans.: A body possesses translational motion only when a net force acts on it. In nonuniform electric field, net force is always non-zero. Therefore, dipole will have both translational and rotational motion. Q13. What is direction of electric field along axial line of dipole? Q14. What is direction of electric field along equatorial line of dipole? Q15. What is the relation between electric field intensity and electric flux? Q16. Define electric flux. Is it scalar or vector? Give its SI unit. Q17. State Gauss law of electrostatics. Q18. What is direction of area vector? Q19. How much is the electric flux through a closed surface due to a charge lying outside the closed surface? Q20. An electric dipole of dipole moment 20 x 10 8 Cm is placed inside a Gaussian surface. What is the net flux coming out of this surface? Q21. If the radius of Gaussian surface enclosing a charge at its centre is halved, how does the electric flux through the Gaussian surface change? Q22. Why do charge resides on the surface of a conducting surface? Q23. Why is electric field zero inside a conducting sphere? Q24. During lightening, why it is considered safest to be inside a car with windows closed? Q25. What is electrostatic shielding? Ans.: The phenomenon of making a region free from electric field is called electrostatic shielding. It is based on the fact that electric field vanishes inside the cavity of hollow conductor. Q26. The force on an electron kept in an electric field in a particular direction is F. What will be the magnitude and direction of the force experienced by a proton at the same point in the field? Ans.: A proton has charge equal and opposite to that of electron. Therefore it will experience same force but in opposite direction.