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Electric Potential

1. The potential difference between the points is 0.1 volt, as 2 J of work was done to move a charge of 20 C by 2 cm. 2. The angle between the electric field and equipotential surface is 90 degrees. 3. The point(s) of zero potential on the line joining the two charges is 10 cm from the 5 × 10–8 C charge. 4. The potential at the center of a regular hexagon with a charge of 5 μC at each vertex is 2.7×10 volt.

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Electric Potential

1. The potential difference between the points is 0.1 volt, as 2 J of work was done to move a charge of 20 C by 2 cm. 2. The angle between the electric field and equipotential surface is 90 degrees. 3. The point(s) of zero potential on the line joining the two charges is 10 cm from the 5 × 10–8 C charge. 4. The potential at the center of a regular hexagon with a charge of 5 μC at each vertex is 2.7×10 volt.

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ELECTRIC POTENTIAL

1. On moving a charge 20 C by 2 cm, 2 J work is done. What is the potential difference between the
points? (0.1 volt)
2. What is the angle between electric field and equipotential surface? (90º)
3. 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.
(x = 10 cm from 5 × 10–8 C)
4. A regular hexagon of side 10 cm has a charge 5 µC at each of its vertices. Calculate the potential at
the centre of the hexagon. (2.7×10 volt)
5. Two charges 2 µC and – 2 µC are placed at points A and B 6 cm apart.
(a) Identify an equipotential surface of the system.
(Plane passing through mid point of line joining A and B has zero potential everywhere.)
(b) What is the direction of the electric field at every point on this surface?
(The direction of electric field is normal to surface)
6. A charge 8 mC is located at the origin. Calculate the work done in taking a small charge of –2×10–9
C from a point P(0, 0, 3 cm) to a point Q(0, 4 cm, 0) via a point R(0, 6 cm, 9 cm). (1.2 joule)
7. A cube of side b has a charge q at each of its vertices. Determine the potential and electric field due
to this charge array at the centre of the cube.
𝟏 𝟏𝟔 𝒒
(𝑽 = 𝟒𝝅∈ ; The electric field at O due to charges at all corners of the cube is zero, since,
𝟎 √𝟑𝒃
electric fields due to charges at opposite corners are equal and opposite.)
8. Two tiny spheres carrying charges 1.5 µC and 2.5 µC are located 30 cm apart. Find the potential
(a) at the mid-point of the line joining the two charges. (2.4 × 105 V)
(b) at a point 10 cm from this midpoint in a plane normal to the line and passing through the mid-
point. (2.0 × 105 V)
9. Why is the electrostatic potential inside a charged conducting shell constant throughout the volume
of the conductor? (E = 0 inside the conductor)
10. 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?
(W1= W2)
11. 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.
(Negative)
12. The field lines of a negative point charge are as shown in the figure. Does the
kinetic energy of a small negative charge increase or decrease in going from B to A?
(Decreases)
13. A point charge +Q is placed at point O as shown in the figure. Is the potential
difference VA–VB positive, negative or zero?

(Positive)
14. 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 charge (VA > VB)
(ii) negative charge? (VA < VB)
15. Draw the equipotential surfaces corresponding to a uniform electric field in the z-direction.
16. Depict the equipotential surfaces for a system of two identical positive point charges placed a
distance ‘d’ apart.
17. 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.
18. “For any charge configuration, equipotential surface through a point is normal to the electric field.”
Justify.
19. A charge ‘q’ is moved from a point A above a dipole of dipole moment ‘p’ to a point B below the
dipole in equatorial plane without acceleration. Find the work done in the process. (Zero)
20. Figure shows the field lines due to a negative point charge. Give the sign of the
potential energy difference of a small negative charge between the points A and B.
(UA – UB is positive)
21. Do free electrons travel to region of higher potential or lower potential?
(Regions of higher potentials)
22. Can there be a potential difference between two adjacent conductors carrying the same charge? (Yes)
23. Show that the equipotential surfaces are closed together in the regions of strong field and far apart in
the regions of weak field. (For same change in dV, E ∝ 1/dr)
24. Three points A, B and C lie in a uniform electric field (E) of 5 × 103 NC–1 as
shown in the figure. Find the potential difference between A and C.
(200 volt)
25. 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?
(E= mg/q , vertically downward, i.e., along (–)Y-axis.)

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