RUBY PARK PUBLIC SCHOOL

CH_1_ELECTRIC CHARGES AND FIELDS

There are two statements labelled as Assertion (A) and Reason (R),
Select the most appropriate Answer from the options given below:
(a) Assertion is correct, reason is correct; reason is a correct explanation for assertion.
(b) Assertion is correct, reason is correct; reason is not a correct explanation for assertion
(c) Assertion is correct, reason is incorrect
(d) Assertion is incorrect, reason is correct.
1. Assertion: A point charge is brought in an electric field, the field at a nearby point will
increase or decrease, depending on the nature of charge.
Reason: The electric field is independent of the nature of charge.
2. Assertion: Mass of a body decreases slightly when it is negatively charged.
Reason: Charging is due to actual transfer of electrons.
3. Assertion: Mass of a body decreases slightly when it is negatively charged.
Reason: A charged body can induce charge in an uncharged body.
4. Assertion: If a conducting medium is placed between two charges, then electric force
between them becomes zero.
Reason: Dielectric constant or relative permittivity of a conducting medium is infinity.
5. Assertion: Electric lines of force cross each other.
Reason: Electric field at a point superimposes to give one resultant electric field
6. Assertion: Insulators do not allow flow of current through themselves.
Reason: Insulators do not have any free charge carriers.
7. Assertion: In a cavity of a conductor, the electric field is zero.
Reason: Charges in a conductor reside only at its surface.
8. Assertion: When bodies are charged through friction, there is transfer of charge from
one body to another.
Reason: This violates the law of conservation of energy
9. Assertion: Electric lines of force cross each other.
Reason: The resultant electric field at a point is the superposition of the electric fields at

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10. Assertion: A charge q is placed on a height h/4 above the centre of a square of side b.
The flux associated with the square is independent of side length.
Reason: Gauss law is independent of the Gaussian surface.
11. Assertion (A): When a body is given a positive charge, there is a slight increase in the
mass of the body.
Reason (R): During charging of a body, there is an actual transfer of electrons.
12. Assertion (A): An electric field produces the same acceleration in electron and proton.
Reason(R): For a given force, acceleration does not depend upon mass.

13. Assertion (A): Two electric lines of force cannot intersect each other.
Reason (R): The tangent at any point of an electric lines of force gives the direction of
electric field intensity at that point.
14. Assertion (A): When air between two charges is replaced by mica, the force between
the two charges is reduced.
Reason (R): The electrostatic force between two charges is inversely proportional to the
dielectric constant of the medium between the two charges.
15. Assertion (A): When bodies are charged through friction, there is transfer of charge
from one body to another. No charge is created or destroyed.
Reason (R): This is according to the law of conservation of electric charge.
16. Assertion (A): The electrostatics force increases with decrease the distance between the
charges.
Reason (R): The electrostatic force of attraction or repulsion between any two stationary
point charges is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.
17. Assertion (A): The Coulomb force between two points charges depend upon the
dielectric constant of the intervening medium.
Reason(R): Coulomb’s force varies inversely with the dielectric constant of medium.
18. Assertion(A): The charge given to a metallic sphere does not depend on whether it is
hollow or solid
Reason(R): The charge resides only at the surface of conductor.
19. Assertion (A): A proton is placed in a uniform electric field, it tend to move along the
direction of electric field.
Reason(R): A proton is placed in a uniform electric field it experiences a force.
20. Assertion (A): Electric field at the surface of a charged conductor is always normal to

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 the surface at every point.
Reason(R): Electric field gives the magnitude & direction of electric force ( )
experienced by any charge placed at any point.
21. Assertion: Electric field lines start at positive charge and end at negative charge.
Reason: Electric field lines are continuous curves without any breaks and they form
closed loops.
22. Assertion: Coulomb’s law in vector form shows that the force between two charges is
always equal and opposite.
Reason: Electrostatic force between two charges is a central force.
23. Assertion: There is no translator motion for an electric dipole placed in a uniform
electric field.
Reason: The net force acting on both the charges of the electric dipole in a uniform
electric field is equal to zero
24. Assertion: Total flux through a closed surface is zero if no charge is enclosed by the
surface.
Reason: Gauss law is true for any closed surface, no matter what its shape or size is.
25. Assertion: If there exists Coulomb’s attraction between two bodies, both of them must
be charged.
Reason: In Coulomb’s attraction, the two bodies must be positively charged.
26. Assertion-When the electric flux through a closed surface is zero then the net charge
inside the surface must be zero.
Reason -When the net charge inside a closed surface is zero then electric field at every
point of the Gaussian surface must be zero
27. Assertion-In electrostatics, electric lines of force can never be closed loops.
Reason-The number of electric lines of force originating from or terminating on a
charge is proportional to the magnitude of charge.
28. Assertion- If a proton and an electron are placed in the same uniform electric field they
experience accelerations of different magnitudes
Reason-Electric force on a charge is independent of its mass
29. Assertion-When a charge is placed at a corner of a square, the flux passing through the
square will be zero.
Reason-When electric field and area vector are perpendicular each other at every point,
then the flux passing through that surface will be zero.
30. Assertion If more electric field lines leave a Gaussian surface than those which enter
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 charge enclosed by that surface will be positive
Reason- If the net flux passing through Gaussian surface is zero, then the net charge
enclosed by that surface will be zero.
31. Assertion: - In case of charging by induction, net charge on the body remains
conserved.
Reason: - In this case, no charge transfer takes place. They rearrange themselves.
32. Assertion: - It is possible to have 2.3 × 10-17 C charge on a body
Reason: - The possible charge on a body follows quantization law
33. Assertion:- When we move away from a point charge or small dipole, the electric field
does not decrease at uniform rate.
Reason:-For both point charge and small electric dipole, the field is inversely
proportional to the square of the distance from the charge or dipole
34. Assertion: - A metallic shield in form of a hollow shell may be built to block an external
electric field.
Reason: - In a hollow spherical shield, the electric field inside it is zero at every point.
35. Assertion (A): Electric filed lines not form closed loops.
Reason(R): Electric filed lines are always normal to the surface of a conductor
36. Assertion (A): A proton is placed in a uniform electric field, it tend to move along the
direction of electric field.
Reason: A proton is placed in a uniform electric field it experiences a force
37. Assertion (A): In a non-uniform electric field, a dipole will have translatory as well as
rotatory motion.
Reason (R): In non-uniform electric field a dipole experiences force as well as torque.

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