ELECTRICFIELD NUMERICALS

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M.E.

S INDIAN SCHOOL, DOHA -QATAR


1. What is the force between two small charged spheres having charges of 2 × 10−7 C and

3 × 10−7 C placed 30 cm apart in air?

2. The electrostatic force on a small sphere of charge 0.4 mC due to another small sphere
of charge –0.8 mC in air is 0.2 N. (a) What is the distance between the two spheres?
(b) What is the force on the second sphere due to the first?

3. Four point charges q A= 2 mC, q B = –5 mC, q C = 2 mC, and q D = –5 mC are located at

the corners of a square ABCD of side 10 cm. What is the force on a charge of 1 mC placed
at the center of the square?
4. A system has two charges qA = 2.5 × 10−7 C and qB = –2.5 × 10−7 C located at points

A: (0, 0, –15 cm) and B: (0,0, +15 cm), respectively. What are the total charge and
electric dipole moment of the system?
5. An electric dipole with dipole moment 4 × 10−9 C m is aligned at 30° with the direction of

A? uniform electric field of magnitude 5 × 104 N/C. Calculate the magnitude of the

torque acting on the dipole.


6. Two large, thin metal plates are parallel and close to each other. On their inner faces,
the plates have surface charge densities of opposite signs and of magnitude
17.0 × 10−22C/m2 . What is E: (a) in the outer region of the first plate, (b) in the outer

region of the second plate, and (c) between the plates?


7. A uniformly charged conducting sphere of 2.4 m diameter has a surface charge density
of 80.0 mC/m2 . (a) Find the charge on the sphere. (b) What is the total electric flux

leaving the surface of the sphere?


8. An infinite line charge produces a field of 9 × 104 N/C at a distance of 2 cm. Calculate

the linear charge density


9. Consider a uniform electric field E = 3 × 103 î N/C. (a) What is the flux of this field through

a square of 10 cm on a side whose plane is parallel to the yz plane? (b) What is the

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flux through the same square if the normal to its plane makes a 60° angle with the x-axis?

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