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This worksheet contains 15 multiple choice and short answer questions about electrostatic potential and capacitance: 1. The physical quantity measured in Joules per Coulomb (J/C) is electrostatic potential, which is a scalar quantity. 2. The electrostatic potential inside a charged conducting shell is constant because electric field lines cannot exist inside a conductor. 3. Work done moving a charge from point A to B within a charged sphere is less than work done moving the same charge from B to C outside the sphere, because the electric field is weaker inside the charged sphere. 4. The questions assess understanding of electrostatic concepts like electric potential, field, equipotential surfaces, and their relationships

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Worksheet 1

This worksheet contains 15 multiple choice and short answer questions about electrostatic potential and capacitance: 1. The physical quantity measured in Joules per Coulomb (J/C) is electrostatic potential, which is a scalar quantity. 2. The electrostatic potential inside a charged conducting shell is constant because electric field lines cannot exist inside a conductor. 3. Work done moving a charge from point A to B within a charged sphere is less than work done moving the same charge from B to C outside the sphere, because the electric field is weaker inside the charged sphere. 4. The questions assess understanding of electrostatic concepts like electric potential, field, equipotential surfaces, and their relationships

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Worksheet1

Electrostatic Potential and Capacitance


1. Name the physical quantity whose SI unit is JC–1. Is it a scalar or a vector quantity?
2. Why is the electrostatic potential inside a charged conducting shell constant throughout the
volume of the conductor?
3. In the given figure, charge +Q is placed at the centre of a dotted circle. Work done in taking
another charge +q from A to B is W1 and from B to C is W2. Which one of the following is
correct: W1 > W2, W1=W2 and W1 < W2?

4. Figure shows the field lines on a positive charge. Is the work done by the field in moving a
small positive charge from Q to P positive or negative? Give reason.

5. Two charges 5 × 10–8 C and – 3 × 10–8 C are located 16 cm apart. At what point(s) on the
line joining the two charges is the electric potential zero? Take the potential at infinity to be
zero.
6. A regular hexagon of side 10 cm has a charge 5 mC at each of its vertices. Calculate the
potential at the centre of the hexagon
7. A point charge +Q is placed at point O as shown in the figure. Is the potential difference VA–
VB positive, negative or zero?

8. A point charge Q is placed at point ‘O’ as shown in figure. Is the potential at point A, i.e., VA,
greater, smaller or equal to potential, VB, at point B, when Q is (i) positive, and (ii) negative
charge?
9. Draw the equipotential surfaces corresponding to a uniform electric field in the z-direction.
10. A point charge Q is placed at point O as shown in the figure. The potential difference VA – VB
is positive. Is the charge Q negative or positive?
11. Draw an equipotential surface for a system consisting of two charges Q, – Q separated by a
distance r in air. Locate the points where the potential due to the dipole is zero.
12. A hollow metal sphere of radius 5 cm is charged such that the potential on its surface is 10 V.
What is the potential at the centre of the sphere?
13. Two uniformly large parallel thin plates having charge densities +σ and – σ are kept in the X-Z
plane at a distance ‘d’ apart. Sketch an equipotential surface due to electric field between
the plates. If a particle of mass m and charge ‘–q’ remains stationary between the plates,
what is the magnitude and direction of this field?
14. Plot a graph comparing the variation of potential ‘V’ and electric field ‘E’ due to a point
charge ‘Q’ as a function of distance ‘R’ from the point charge.
15. Draw 3 equipotential surfaces corresponding to a field that uniformly increases in magnitude
but remains constant along Z-direction. How are these surfaces different from that of a
constant electric field along Z-direction?

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