Gulf Indian High School, Dubai

1) A point charge +Q is placed in the vicinity of a conducting sphere .Draw the

electric field lines between the surface and the charge.
2) Show on plot the nature of variation of the (i) Electric field (E) and (ii) potential
(V) of an electric dipole with the distance (r) of the field point from the centre of
the dipole.
3) Figure shows the field lines on a positive charge. Is the work done by the field in
moving a small positive charge from Q to P, positive or negative? Give reason.

4) An electric dipole is placed in a uniform electric field.

(i) Show that no translatory force acts on it.
(ii) Derive an expression for the torque acting on it.
(iii) Find work done in rotating the dipole through 180.
5) A long charged cylinder of linear charge density +λ1 is surrounded by a hollow
coaxial conducting cylinder of linear charge density – λ2 . Use Gauss’s law to
obtain expressions for the electric field at a point (a) in the space between the
cylinders and (b) outside the larger cylinder.
6) Using Gauss’s law in electrostatics , deduce an expression for electric field
intensity due to a uniformly charged infinite plane sheet .If another identical
sheet is placed parallel to it, show that there is no electric field in the region
between the two sheets.
7) (i) A point charge (+Q) is kept in the vicinity of an uncharged conducting plate.
Sketch electric field lines between the charge and the plate.
(ii) Two infinitely large plane thin parallel sheets having surface charge densities
ϭ1 and ϭ2 are shown in the figure. Write the magnitudes and directions of the
fields in the regions marked II and III.