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JOAN OF ARC INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, TRICHY

SLIP TEST - 3 JUNE 26/2018
XII - PHYSICS - Electric Charges and Fields MARKS 20

All questions are compulsory

1. Is the mass of the body affected on charging? Explain (1)

2. Can two like charges attract each other? Explain (1)
3. Why should a test charge be of negligibly small magnitude? (1)
4. Do the lines of force really exist? What is about the field they represent? (1)
5. An electrostatic field is a continuous curve. That is, a field line can not have sudden
breaks. Why not? (2)
6. Explain why two field lines never cross each other at any point? (1)
7. State Gauss theorem and define electric flux. (2)
8. Two point charges q1 = 0.2 C and q2 = 0.4 C are kept at a distance 0.1 m apart. Find
the electric field midway between the charges. And at the point 0.15 m away from the
charge q2. (2+2)
9. Obtain the formula for the electric field due to a long thin wire of uniform linear
charge density λ without using Gauss’s law. (5)
or
Using Gauss law, derive an expression for the electric field intensity at any point
outside a uniformly charged thin spherical shell of radius R and charge density 𝝈
C/m2. Draw the field lines when the charge density of the sphere is (i) positive, (ii)
negative. (5)
10. A uniformly charged sphere carries a total charge of 2 𝝅 ⨉ 10 -12 C. Its radius is 5 cm
and is placed in vacuum. Determine its surface charge density. (1)
11. What charge would be required to electrify a sphere of radius 15 cm so as to get a
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surface charge density of μC/m2 ? (1)
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