REVISION CHAPTER 16

1. State first law of electrostatic.

2. Define Coulomb’s Law of electrostatics.

3. Define electric field of a positive charged particle, Q.

4. Define electric potential at a point.

5. Define electric potential energy of a charged particle.

6. Three-point charges are placed at the corners of an isosceles triangle of sides 12 cm and base
8 cm. The two charges Q2 and Q3 each of +15 C are at the base of the triangle, while charge
Q1 of -10 C is at the vertex of the triangle. Find the force on Q2.
[𝑨𝑵𝑺: 𝟐𝟗𝟖. 𝟓𝟒 𝑵, 𝟏𝟕. 𝟐𝟐 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒗𝒆 − 𝒙 − 𝒂𝒙𝒊𝒔]

7. Three-point charges Q1 (– 4 C), Q2 (+8 C) and Q3 (+6 C) are placed at the corners of an
equilateral triangle of sides 12 cm. Calculate

i. the electric field at the centre of the triangle, and

[𝑨𝑵𝑺: 𝟐𝟎. 𝟒𝟔 × 𝟏𝟎𝟔 𝑵𝑪−𝟏 , 𝟖𝟏° 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒙 − 𝒂𝒙𝒊𝒔]
ii. the electric potential at the centre of the triangle.
[𝑨𝑵𝑺: 𝟏𝟐𝟖𝟓 𝒌𝑽]
8. Three-point charges are arranged as shown in the figure. Calculate the force exerted on the
+20 C charge. The angle between the two lines is 60°.
[𝑨𝑵𝑺: 𝟑𝟗𝟐. 𝟖𝟗 𝑵, 𝟕𝟐. 𝟐𝟐° 𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒘 − 𝒙 − 𝒂𝒙𝒊𝒔]

9. Two-point charges are located at two of the vertices of a right triangle, as shown in the figure
below. If a third charge −2q is brought from infinity and placed at the third vertex, what will
its electric potential energy be? Use the following values: a = 0.16 m; b = 0.45 m, and q = 2.0 ×
10−5 C.
[𝑨𝑵𝑺: −𝟏𝟕 𝑱]

10. Two-point charges are held at the corners of a rectangle as shown in the figure. The lengths
of sides of the rectangle are 0.050 m and 0.150 m. Assume that the electric potential is defined
to be zero at infinity.
i. Determine the electric potential at corner A. [𝑨𝑵𝑺: 𝟔𝟎 𝒌𝑽]
ii. What is the potential difference, VB − VA, between corners A and B?
[𝑨𝑵𝑺: −𝟖𝟒𝟎 𝒌𝑽]
iii. What is the electric potential energy of a +3.0 μC charge placed at corner A?
[𝑨𝑵𝑺: 𝟎. 𝟏𝟖 𝑱]