Ch-2-Electric-potential-and-capacitance.pptx
- 1. Electric potential and capacitance
- 3. Potential due to a point
- 5. Potential due to a dipole
- 6. Potential due to system of charges
- 9. Diagram of some equipotential surfaces
- 10. Relation between ‘E’ and ‘V’
- 11. Potential energy of a system of charges
- 13. P.E. of a dipole in an external field
- 27. 5 × 10-8 C and -3 x 10-8 C are the two charges located 16 cm apart from each other. At what point(s) between these two charges the electric potential is zero? solution
- 28. Q.2) A regular hexagon having sides equal to 10 cm, contains charges of 5 µC at its each vertices. Find the potential at the centre of this regular hexagon.
- 29. Q.3) Charges 2 µC and -2 µC at a point A and B, respectively are 6 cm apart. (1) Obtain an equipotential surface of the system. (2) At every point on the surface find the direction of electric field. (1) An equipotential surface is defined as the surface over which the total potential is zero. In the given question this plane is normal to line AB. The plane is located at the mid – point of the line AB as the magnitude of the charges are same. (2) At every point on this surface the direction of the electric field is normal to the plane in the direction of AB.
- 30. Q.4) A conductor is in the shape of a sphere with radius 12 cm having charge 1.6 x 10-7C uniformly distributed over its surface. What will be the electric field ? (1) Inside the sphere. (2) Just outside the sphere. (3) At a point 18 cm from the centre of sphere.
- 31. Q.5) What will be the capacitance of a parallel plate capacitor with air between the plates having capacitance of 8pF (1pF = 10-12 F). How much the capacitance of the capacitor will change if the distance between the plate is reduced to half, and the space between the plates is filled with a substance of dielectric constant 6?
- 32. Q.6) Three capacitors connected in series have capacitance of 9pF each. (1) What can be total capacitance of this combination? (2) Find the potential difference across each capacitor if they are connected to a 120v supply?
- 33. Q.7) In parallel combination three capacitors of capacitances 2pF, 3pF and 4pF are connected. (1) What will be the total capacitance of this combination? (2) If the connection is connected to 100V supply, find the charge on each capacitor.
- 34. Q.8) A parallel plate capacitor having air in between the plates each having area of 6 x 10- 3 m 2 and distance between them is 3 mm. Find the capacitance of the capacitor. What will be the charge on each plate if the capacitor is connected to a 100v source?
- 35. Q 9 :Considering the same capacitor as in Q 8, when a thick mica sheet, 3mm wide is placed between the plates (Dielectric constant = 6 ) (a)With constant voltage supply (b) After disconnecting the voltage supply
- 36. Q.10) How much of electrostatic energy is stored in the capacitor if the capacitor with 12pF of capacitance is connected to a 50v battery?
- 37. Q.11) 200V of source is connected to a 600pF capacitor. Later, the source is disconnected to the 600pf capacitor and connected to another 600pF capacitor. How much of electrostatic energy is lost in the process?