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An electric dipole is formed by two charges $+q$ and $-q$ located in $x y$-plane at $(0,2) \mathrm{mm}$ and $(0,-2) \mathrm{mm}$, respectively, as sho...

A thin spherical insulating shell of radius R carries a uniformly distributed charge such that the potential at its surface is V0. A hole with a small...

The electric field $$E$$ is measured at a point $$P(0,0,d)$$ generated due to various charge distributions and the dependence of $$E$$ on $$d$$ is fou...

Consider an evacuated cylindrical chamber of height h having rigid conducting plates at the ends and an insulating curved surface as shown in the figu...

Consider an evacuated cylindrical chamber of height h having rigid conducting plates at the ends and an insulating curved surface as shown in the figu...

Consider a uniform spherical charge distribution of radius $${R_1}$$ centred at the origin $$O.$$ In this distribution, a spherical cavity of radius $...

Charges $$Q,$$ $$2Q$$ and $$4Q$$ are uniformly distributed in three dielectric solid spheres $$1,2$$ and $$3$$ of radii $$R/2,R$$ and $$2R$$ respectiv...

Four charges Q1, Q2, Q3 and Q4 of same magnitude are fixed along the x axis at x = $$-$$2a, $$-$$a, +a and +2a, respectively. A positive charge q is p...

Let $${E_1}\left( r \right),{E_2}\left( r \right)$$ and $${E_3}\left( r \right)$$ be the respective electric field at a distance $$r$$ from a point ch...

Two non-conducting solid spheres of radii $$R$$ and $$2R,$$ having uniform volume charge densities $${\rho _1}$$ and $${\rho _2}$$ respectively, touch...

Two large vertical and parallel metal plates having a separation of $$1$$ $$cm$$ are connected to a $$DC$$ voltage source of potential difference $$X$...

Consider a thin spherical shell of radius $$R$$ with center at the origin, carrying uniform positive surface charge density. The variation of the magn...

Consider an electric field $$\overrightarrow E = {E_0}\widehat x$$ where $${E_0}$$ is a constant. The flux through the shaded area (as shown in the f...

Which of the field patterns given below is valid for electric field as well as for magnetic field ?

A tiny spherical oil drop carrying a net charge $$q$$ is balanced in still air with a vertical uniform electric field of strength $${{81\pi } \over 7}...

A uniformly charged thin spherical shell of radius $$R$$ carries uniform surface charge density of $$\sigma $$ per unit area. It is made of two hemisp...

A disk of radius $${a \over 4}$$ having a uniformly distributed charge 6C is placed in the xy-plane with its centre at ($$-$$a/2, 0, 0). A rod of leng...

Three concentric metallic spherical shells of radii $$R,2R,3R$$ are given charges $$Q_1,Q_2,Q_3$$, respectively. It is found that the surface charge d...

Six point charges, each of the same magnitude q, are arranged in different manners as shown in Column II. In each case, a point M and a line PQ passin...

Consider a system of three charges $${q \over 3},{q \over 3}$$ and $$ - {{2q} \over 3}$$ placed at points A, B and C, respectively, as shown in the fi...

A parallel plate capacitor C with plates of unit area and separation d is filled with a liquid of dielectric constant K = 2. The level of liquid is $$...

STATEMENT 1 : For practical purposes, the earth is used as a reference at zero potential in electrical circuits. and STATEMENT 2 : The electrical pote...

The electric field at r = R is :

For a = 0, the value of d (maximum value of $$\rho$$ as shown in the figure) is

The electric field within the nucleus is generally observed to be linearly dependent on r. This implies

A spherical portion has been removed from a solid sphere having a charge distributed uniformly in its volume as shown in the figure. The electric fiel...

Positive and negative point charges of equal magnitude are kept at $$\left(0,0, \frac{a}{2}\right)$$ and $$\left(0,0, \frac{-a}{2}\right)$$, respectiv...

A charge $q$ is surrounded by a closed surface consisting of an inverted cone of height $h$ and base radius $R$, and a hemisphere of radius $R$ as sho...

Two point charges $$-$$Q and +Q/$$\sqrt 3 $$ are placed in the xy-plane at the origin (0, 0) and a point (2, 0), respectively, as shown in the figure....

Two point charges $$-$$Q and +Q/$$\sqrt 3 $$ are placed in the xy-plane at the origin (0, 0) and a point (2, 0), respectively, as shown in the figure....

Two large circular discs separated by a distance of 0.01 m are connected to a battery via a switch as shown in the figure. Charged oil drops of densit...

A point charge q of mass m is suspended vertically by a string of length l. A point dipole of dipole moment $$\overrightarrow p $$ is now brought towa...

One end of a spring of negligible unstretched length and spring constant k is fixed at the origin (0, 0). A point particle of mass m carrying a positi...

A circular disc of radius R carries surface charge density $$\sigma \left( r \right) = {\sigma _0}\left( {1 - {r \over R}} \right)$$, where $$\sigma $...

A particle, of mass $${10^{ - 3}}$$ $$kg$$ and charge $$1.0$$ $$C,$$ is initially at rest. At time $$t=0,$$ the particle comes under the influence of ...

An infinitely long uniform line charge distribution of charge per unit length $$\lambda$$ lies parallel to the y-axis in the y-z plane at $$z = {{\sqr...

An infinitely long solid cylinder of radius R has a uniform volume charge density $$\rho$$. It has a spherical cavity of radius R/2 with its centre on...

Four point charges, each of +q, are rigidly fixed at the four corners of a square planar soap film of side a. The surface tension of the soap film is ...

A solid sphere of radius R has a charge Q distributed in its volume with a charge density $$\rho = K{r^a}$$, where K and a are constants and r is the...

In the figure, the inner (shaded) region $A$ represents a sphere of radius $r_{A}=1$, within which the electrostatic charge density varies with the ra...

A disk of radius $\mathrm{R}$ with uniform positive charge density $\sigma$ is placed on the $x y$ plane with its center at the origin. The Coulomb po...

Six charges are placed around a regular hexagon of side length $a$ as shown in the figure. Five of them have charge $q$, and the remaining one has cha...

Two identical non-conducting solid spheres of same mass and charge are suspended in air from a common point by two non-conducting, massless strings of...

A uniform electric field, $$\overrightarrow E = - 400\sqrt 3 \widehat y$$ NC−1 is applied in a region. A charged particle of mass m carrying positiv...

An electric dipole with dipole moment $${{{p_0}} \over {\sqrt 2 }}(\widehat i + \widehat j)$$ is held fixed at the origin O in the presence of a unifo...

An infinitely long thin non-conducting wire is parallel to the $$z$$-axis and carries a uniform line charge density $$\lambda .$$ It pierces a thin no...

A point charge $$+Q$$ is placed just outside an imaginary hemispherical surface of radius $$R$$ as shown in the figure. Which of the following statem...

The figures below depict two situations in which two infinitely long static line charges of constant positive line charge density $$\lambda $$ are kep...

Two non-conducting spheres of radii $${R_1}$$ and $${R_2}$$ and carrying uniform volume charge densities $$ + \rho $$ and $$ - \rho ,$$ respectively, ...

Six point charges are kept at the vertices of a regular hexagon of side $$L$$ and center $$O,$$ as shown in the figure. Given that $$K = {1 \over {4\p...

A cubical region of side $$a$$ has its center at the origin. It encloses three fixed point charges, $$-q$$ at $$\left( {0, - a/4,0} \right), + 3q$$ at...

A spherical metal shell A of radius $${R_A}$$ and a solid metal sphere $$B$$ of radius $${R_B}\left( { < {R_A}} \right)$$ are kept far apart and ea...

Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct?

A few electric field lines for a system of two charges $${Q_1}$$ and $${Q_2}$$ fixed at two different points on the $$x$$-axis are shown in the figure...