JMS PROGRESS POINT

(Electric potential & Capacitance)

NUMERICAL BOOKLET
1. What is the work done in moving a test charge q through a
distance of 1 cm along the equatorial axis of an electric dipole?

2. A 500 µC charge is at the centre of a square of side 10 cm. Find

the work done in moving a charge of 10 µC between two
diagonally opposite points on the square?

3. 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?
4. Draw a plot showing the variation of electric field (E) and electric
potential(V) with distance r due to a point charge Q.

5. What is common potential ? Derive the expression for energy loss

when an charged capacitor is connected with an uncharged
capacitor .
6. Two point charges q and -2q are kept ‘d’ distance apart . find the
location of the point relative to charge ‘q’ at which potential due
to this system of charge is zero .
7. N small conducting liquid droplets, each of radius r, are charged to
a potential V each. These droplets coalesce to form a single large
drop without any charge leakage. Find the potential of the large
drop .

8. Two small conducting balls A and B of radius r1 and r2 have

charges q1 and q2 they were connected by a wire. Obtain the
expression for charge on A and B in equilibrium .
9. (i) Consider a uniformly charged thin conducting shell of radius R.
Plot a graph showing the variation of ∣E∣ with distance r from the
centre, for points 0≤ r≤3R.
(ii) Consider a uniformly charged thin conducting shell of radius R.
Plot a graph showing the variation of ∣V∣ with distance r from the
centre, for points 0≤ r≤3R.

10. The figure shows the variation of potential

V with 1/r for two point charges Q1 and Q2,
where V is the potential at a distance r due
to a point charge. Find Q1/Q2 .
11. The electric potential V at any point (x,y,z) in space is given
by V=4x2. Calculate the electric field at (1,0,2)m in Vm-1 .

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14. The electric potential as a function of distance ' x ' is shown
in the figure. Draw a graph of the electric field E as a function
of x.

15. A test charge ‘q’ is moved without acceleration from A to C

along the path from A to B and then from B to C in electric field E
as shown in the figure.

(i) Calculate the potential difference between A and C.

(ii) At which point (of the two) is the electric potential more and
why?
16. A + 3.0 nC charge Q is initially at rest at a distance of r; = 10
cm from a + 5.0 nC charge q fixed at the origin. The charge Q is
moved away from q to a new position at r, = 15 cm. calculate the
work done by the field in this process .

17. Obtain an expression for electrostatic potential energy of a

system of three charges q , 2q and -3q placed at the vertices of an
equilateral triangle of side a.
18. Calculate the work done to dissociate the system of three
charges placed on the vertices of a triangle as shown.

19. Four-point charges Q, q, Q and q are placed at the corners of

a square of side ' a ' as shown in the figure. Find the Electrostatic
Potential energy of this system.
20. A charge −6μC is placed at the centre B of a semicircle of
radius 5 cm , as shown in the figure. An equal and opposite charge
is placed at point D at a distance of 10 cm from B . A charge +5μC
is moved from point ' C ' to point ' A ' along the circumference.
Calculate the work done on the charge.
21. The electric field inside a parallel plate
capacitor is E. Find the amount of
work done in moving a charge a over
a closed rectangular loop abcda.

22. Find the expression for the potential energy of a system of

two point charges q1 and q2 located at r1 and r2, respectively in
an external electric field E .
23. The given graph shows the variation of
charge q versus potential difference V
for two capacitors C₁ and C2. Both the
capacitors have same plate separation
but plate a C₂ is greater than that C₁. Which line (A or B)
corresponds to C₁ and why?
24. The space between the plates of a parallel plate capacitor is
completely filled in two ways. In the first case, it is filled with a
slab of dielectric constant K . In the second case, it is filled with
two slabs of equal thickness and dielectric constants K1 and K2
respectively as shown in the figure. The capacitance of the
capacitor is same in the two cases. Obtain the relationship
between K,K1 and K2 .
25. Two slabs of dielectric constants 2K and K fill the space
between the plates of a parallel plate capacitor of plate area A
and plate separation d as shown in figure. Find an expression for
capacitance of the system.
26. A parallel plate capacitor is charged by a battery. After
sometime the battery is disconnected and a dielectric slab with its
thickness equal to the plate separation is inserted between the
plates. How will
(i) the capacitance of the capacitor,
(ii) electric field between the plates and
(iii) the energy stored in the capacitor be affected?

27. In a parallel plate capacitor with air between the plates,

each plate has an area of 6×10-3 m2 and the separation between
the plates is 3 mm . (i) Calculate the capacitance of the capacitor.
(ii) If the capacitor is connected to 100 V supply. what would be
the charge on each plate? (iii) How would charge on the plate be
affected, if a 3 mm thick mica sheet of K=6 is inserled between the
plates while the voltage supply remains connected?
28. Two identical parallel plate capacitors A and B are connected
to a battery of V volts with the switch S is closed. The switch is
now opened and the free space between the plates of the
capacitors is filled with a dielectric of dielectric constant K. Find
the ratio of the total electrostatic enery stored in both capacitors
before and after the introduction of the dielectric.
29. In the following arrangement of capacitors, the energy
stored in the 6 μF capacitor is E. Find the value of the following:
(i) Energy stored in 12 μF capacitor.
(ii) Energy stored in 3 μF capacitor.
(iii) Total energy drawn from the battery.
30. Two identical capacitors of 12 pF each are connected in
series across a battery of 50 V. How much electrostatic energy is
stored in the combination? If these were connected in parallel
across the same battery, how much energy will be stored in the
combination now? Also find the charge drawn from the battery in
each case.
31. In the circuit shown in the figure, the charge on the
capacitor of 4μ F is 16μC. Calculate the energy stored in the
capacitor of 12μ F capacitance?