Home Assignment II

Las Date of Submission: 29. 09. 2021

1. Two point charges +4q and +q are placed 30 cm apart. At what point on the line joining
them the electric field is zero?
2. A dipole is placed in a uniform electric field with its axis parallel to the field. What is
Torque on it?
3. Two charges 10 × 10−9 C and 20 × 10−9C are placed at the two corners of a equilateral
triangles. The length of the arms is 0.03 m. calculate the electric field out the third corner
of the triangles.
4. Two equal charges of 10 × 10-5 C are shown in fig below; each produces an electric field
at point P on Y axis. (a) What is the magnitudes of the fields at P? (b) what is direction of
field? (c) Find the X and Y components of the field vector.(d) What is the direction of the
net field?

P
10cm

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I-------20cm-------I

5. An electric dipole consists of charges -2e and +2e separated by 0.78 nm. It is in an
electric field of strength 3.4 ×106 N/C. Calculate the magnitude of the torque on the
dipole when the dipole moment is (a) parallel to, (b) perpendicular to, and (c) antiparallel
to the electric field.

6. How much work is required to turn an electric dipole 180 in a uniform electric field of
magnitude E =46.0 N/C if the dipole moment has a magnitude of p = 3.02×10-25 C. m and
the initial angle is 64?
7. An electron is released from rest in a uniform electric field of magnitude 2.00 ×104 N/C.
Calculate the acceleration of the electron.
8. A point charge causes an electric flux of –6 × 103 Nm2 C−1 to pass through a spherical
Gaussian surface of 10 cm radius centered on the charge. (i) If the radius of the Gaussian
surface is doubled, how much flux will pass through the surface? (ii) What is the value of
charge?
9. What is the
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net charge enclosed by the Gaussian cube of side is shown in Fig below. Which lies in the
electric E  4iˆ  5 ˆj field ?
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10. A surface has the area vector A  (4iˆ  5 ˆj )m 2 What is the flux of a uniform electric field through the area if the
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field is (a) E  2i N/C and (b) E  3kˆ N/C.

11. a uniform electric field of magnitude E =3.0 mN/C is passing through a circular area of radius , a = 11 cm. The rim of
the circular area is aligned perpendicular to the field. The net contains no net charge. Find the electric flux through the
netting.
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13. In Fig. below, a proton is a distance d/2 directly above the center of a square of side d. What is the
magnitude of the electric flux through the square?

14. Figure below shows a closed Gaussian surface in the shape of a cube of edge length 2.00 m. It
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lies in a region where the uniform electric field is given by E  4iˆ  6 ˆj  7kˆ N/C. Find out fluxes
through all faces of the cube and what is the net charge contained by the cube? [4]