INDIAN SCHOOL IBRI

NUMERICAL BASED PRACTICE WORKSHEET (2024-’25)

Class: XII PHYSICS (042)
CHAPTER: Electric Charges and Fields
SUB-TOPIC: Electric Flux and Gauss’s Theorem
Date:
Worksheet Number: 5
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1. If 𝐸⃗ =6𝑖̂ + 3𝑗̂ + 4𝑘̂, calculate the electric flux through a surface of area 20 units in 𝟏𝟐𝟎 𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒔

Y-Z plane.
𝟏. 𝟑𝟔 × 𝟏𝟎𝟒 𝑵𝒎𝟐 𝑪−𝟏
2. A circular plane sheet of radius 10 cm is placed in a uniform electric field
5 × 105 𝑁𝐶 −1 , making an angle of 60˚ with the field. Calculate the flux through
the sheet.
𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒇 𝒓𝒆𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒅
3. A cylinder is placed in a uniform electric field 𝐸⃗ with its axis parallel to the field.
Show that the total electric flux through the cylinder is zero.
1.129× 𝟏𝟎𝟏𝟏
4. Calculate the number of electric lines of force originating from a charge of 1C.
𝟔. 𝟒 × 𝟏𝟎𝟓 𝑵𝑪−𝟏
5. A positive charge of 17.7𝜇𝐶 is placed at the centre of a hollow sphere of radius 0.5
m. Calculate the flux density through the surface of the sphere.
−𝟔𝟔𝟔. 𝟔𝟕 𝑵𝒎𝟐 𝑪−𝟐
6. Figure shows five charged lumps of plastic and an electrically neutral coin. The
cross-section of a Gaussian surface S is indicated. What is the net flux through the
surface if
𝑞1 = 𝑞4 = +3.1 𝑛𝐶
𝑞2 = 𝑞5 = −5.9 𝑛𝐶
𝑞3 = −3.1 𝑛𝐶?

𝟑𝟎𝟎𝑵𝒎𝟐 𝑪−𝟏
7. If the electric field is given by 𝐸⃗ =8𝑖̂ + 4𝑗̂ + 3𝑘̂ 𝑁𝐶 −1 , calculate the electric flux
through a surface of area 100 𝑚2 in the X-Y plane.
𝟔 × 𝟏𝟎𝟑 𝑵𝒎𝟐 𝑪−𝟏
8. The electric field in a certain region of space is (5𝑖̂ + 4𝑗̂ − 4𝑘̂) × 105 𝑁𝐶 −1 .
Calculate electric flux due to this field over an area of (2𝑖̂ − 𝑗̂) × 10−2 𝑚2 .

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9. 𝑆1 and 𝑆2 are two concentric spheres enclosing charges 𝑄 and 2𝑄 respectively as
𝟏 𝑸
shown in figure. 𝜿 𝜺𝟎

No change in flux of
𝑺𝟏 with the
introduction of
dielectric inside
sphere 𝑺𝟐

(i) What is the ratio of the electric flux through 𝑆1 and 𝑆2 ?

(ii) How will the electric flux through the sphere 𝑆1 change, if a medium of
dielectric constant 𝜅 is introduced in the space inside 𝑆1 in place of air?
(iii) How will the electric flux through sphere 𝑆2 change, if a medium of
dielectric constant 𝜅 is introduced in the space inside 𝑆2 in place of air?
𝟑𝟎 𝑵𝒎𝟐 𝑪−𝟏
10. Consider a uniform electric field 𝐸⃗ = 3 × 103 𝑖̂ 𝑁𝐶 −1 . Calculate the flux of this
𝟏𝟓 𝑵𝒎𝟐 𝑪−𝟏
field through a square surface of area 10 𝑐𝑚2 when
(i) Its plane is parallel to the 𝑦 − 𝑧 plane, and
(ii) The normal to its plane makes a 60° angle with the 𝑥 −axis.
11. Given a uniform electric field 𝐸⃗ = 5 × 103 𝑖̂ 𝑁𝐶 −1 , find the flux of this field 𝟓𝟎 𝑵𝒎𝟐𝑪−𝟏
𝟐𝟓𝒏𝑵𝒎𝟐 𝑪−𝟏
through a square of 10 cm on a side whose plane is parallel to the 𝑌 − 𝑍 plane.
What would be the flux through the same square if the plane makes a 30° angle
with the 𝑋 −axis?
𝟏𝟎𝟒 𝑵𝒎𝟐 𝑪−𝟏
12. A spherical Gaussian surface encloses a charge of 8.85 × 10−8 𝐶.
𝑵𝒐 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆
(i) Calculate the electric flux passing through the surface.
(ii) If the radius of the Gaussian surface is doubled, how would the flux
change?
𝟏. 𝟐𝟓𝟎 × 𝟏𝟎−𝟏 𝑵𝒎𝟐 𝑪−
13. A hollow cylinder box of length 1 m (i) Net flux through the cylinder,
2 𝟏. 𝟏𝟎𝟕 𝒑𝑪
and area of cross-section 25 𝑐𝑚 is (ii) Charge enclosed by the
placed in a three dimensional cylinder
coordinate system as shown in figure.
The electric field in the region is
given by 𝐸⃗ = 50 𝑥 𝑖̂ 𝑁𝐶 −1 , where x
is in metres.
Find
14. The electric field components due to 𝝋𝑬
= 𝟎. 𝟏 𝑵𝒎−𝟐 𝑪−𝟏
a charge inside a cube of side 𝒒
0.1𝑚 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑠 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑤𝑛 = 𝟖. 𝟖𝟓𝟒
𝑁 × 𝟏𝟎−𝟏𝟑 𝑪
𝐸𝑥 = 𝛼𝑥, where 𝛼 = 400 𝐶 − 𝑚
𝐸𝑦 = 0, where 𝐸2 = 0
Calculate (i) the flux through the
cube, and (ii) the charge inside the
cube.

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