HOME ASSIGNMENT -1 (FULLY NCERT TEXT BASED)

Chapter: Electric Charges and Fields

SUBMISSION DATE: 18-04-23

Answer the following questions briefly/ Fill in the blanks:

1. All of us have the experience of seeing a spark or hearing a crackle when we take off our
synthetic clothes or sweater, particularly in dry weather. What is the reason behind this?
2. The fact that electric charge is always an integral multiple of e is termed as..........
3. Coulomb used a ...............balance for measuring the force between two charged metallic
spheres.
4. Coulomb’s law has also been established down to ............ level (r ~ 10-10 m).
5. .......... is an elegant way of characterising the electrical environment of a system of
charges.
6. Electric field at a point in the space around a system of charges tells you the ........ a unit
positive ........ would experience if placed at that point (without disturbing the system).
7. Electric field is a characteristic of the .......... and is independent of the ........charge that
you place at a point to determine the field.
8. The term .......... in physics generally refers to a quantity that is defined at every point in
space and may vary from point to point.
9. Electric field is a ............ field, since force is a vector quantity.
10. The true physical significance of the concept of electric field, however, emerges only
when we go beyond electrostatics and deal with time dependent .......... phenomena.
11. Discuss the field picture in terms of time dependent electromagnetic phenomena.
12. A source of .............. electromagnetic fields, turned on for a short interval of time and
then switched off, leaves behind propagating ........... fields transporting energy.
13. The concept of field was first introduced by .......... and is now among the ....... concepts
in physics.
14. Look at the field lines below due to a positive point charge,
(i) Why do the vectors get shorter as one goes away from the origin?
(ii) Why the density of field lines is more near the charge and less away from the charge?
(iii) Under what conditions electric flux through a surface becomes (i) maximum (ii)
minimum?