HOLIDAY HOMEWORK || Class XII---PHYSICS || Chapter 2|| Rahim Sir||

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1. On what factors does the capacitance of a parallel plate capacitor depend?

2. A hollow metal sphere c radius 5 cm is charged such that the potential on its surface is 10 V.
What is the potential at the center of the sphere? (CDSE AI 2011)
3. What is the geometrical shape of equipotential surfaces due to a single isolated charge? (CBSE
Delhi 2013)
4. Draw the equipotential surfaces due to an isolated point charge. (CBSE Delhi 2019)
5. ‘For any charge configuration, equipotential surface through a point is normal to the electric
field’. Justify. (CBSE Delhi 2014)
6. The given graph shows the variation of charge ‘q’ versus potential difference ‘V for two
capacitors C1 and C2. Both the capacitors have the same plate separation but the plate area of
C2 is greater than that of Cy Which line (A or B) corresponds to C1 and why? (CBSEAI 2014C)
7. Write a relation for polarisation P of dielectric material in the presence of an external electric
field E . (CBSE AI 2015)
8. Why are electric field lines perpendicular at a point on an equipotential surface of a conductor?
(CBSE AI 2015C)
9. Why is the electrostatic potential inside a charged conducting shell constant throughout the
volume of the conductor? (CBSE AI 2019)
10. Calculate the potential difference and the energy stored in the capacitor C 2 in the circuit shown in
the figure. Given potential at A is 90 V, C 1 = 20 μF, C2 = 30 μF, and C3= 15 μF. (CBSEAI 2015)

11. Find the ratio of the potential differences that must be applied across the parallel and
series combination of two capacitors C1 and C2 with their capacitances in the ratio 1:2 so that the
energy stored in these two cases becomes the same. (CBSE Al 2016)
12. Two parallel plate capacitors X and Y have the same area of plates and the same
separation between them, X has air between the plates, while Y contains a dielectric medium of
εr = 4.
(a) Calculate the capacitance and Potential energy of each capacitor if the equivalent capacitance
of the combination is 4 μF.
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13. In the following arrangement of capacitors, the energy stored in the 6 μF capacitor is E. Find the
value of the following. (Foreign 2016)
(a) Energy stored in 12 pF capacitor.
(b) Energy stored in 3 pF capacitor.
(c) Total energy drawn from the battery.

14. A capacitor of unknown capacitance is connected across a battery of V volts. The charge stored
in it is 360 μC. When the potential across the capacitor is reduced by 120 V, the charge stored in
it becomes 120 μC. Calculate:
(i) The potential V and the unknown capacitance C.
(ii) What will be the charge stored in the capacitor, if the voltage applied had increased by 120
V? (CBSE Delhi 2013)

15. A charge Q is distributed over the surfaces of two concentric hollow spheres of radii r and R (R
>> r), such that their surface charge densities are equal. Derive the expression for the potential at
the common center.
Or
Three concentric metallic shells A, B, and C of radii a, b, and c (a <b < C) have surface charge
densities +a, -a, and + o respectively as shown. Obtain the expressions for the potential of three
shells A, B, and C. If shells A and C are at the same potential, obtain the relation between a, b
and c. (CBSE Al 2019)

16. (a) Obtain the expression for the potential due to an electric dipole of dipole moment p at a point
‘x’ on the axial line.
(b) Two identical capacitors of plate dimensions l × b and plate separation d have dielectric slabs
filled In between the space of the plates as shown In the figures. Obtain the relation between the
dielectric constants K, K1, and K2. (CBSE Al 2013C)
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17. (a) Obtain the expression for the energy stored per unit volume in a charged parallel plate
capacitor.
(b) The electric field inside a parallel plate capacitor is E. Find the amount of work done in
moving a charge q over a closed rectangular loop a b c d a. (CBSE Delhi 2014)

18. A thin metallic spherical shell of radius R carries a charge Q on its surface. A point
charge is placed at its center C and another charge +2Q. outside the shell, at a distance r from the
center as shown in the figure. Find (i) the force on the charge at the center of the shell and at the
point A and (ii) the electric flux through the shell. (CBSE Delhi 2015)

19. Find equivalent capacitance between A and B in the combination given below. Each
capacitor is of 2 μF capacitance.

20. The figure shows a network of three capacitors C1 = 2 μF; C2 = 6 μF and C3 = 3 μF connected
across a battery of 10 V. If a charge of 6 μC is acquired by the capacitor C 3, calculate the charge
acquired by C1 (CBSE Al 2019)