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1. State the Principle of a potentiometer. (The students say that potential drop is proportional to length but the constant quantities are not mentioned)
2. How can we increase the sensitivity of a potentiometer?
3. Define figure of merit of a galvanometer.
4. Which has more resistance – a galvanometer or a milliammeter?
5. How does an LED emit light?
6. What is the difference between an ordinary diode and an LED?
7. Define principal axis of a convex lens?
8. What happens to the focal length of a concave mirror if it is immersed in water?
9. What are the factors affecting the internal resistance of a cell?
10. What are the difference between primary and secondary cell?
11. Why can’t we use a dry cell for starting a car?
12. What happens to the resistivity of a wire when it is doublefolded?
13. How does the resistance of a wire depend on its dimensions?
14. Why are the resistances used in a resistance box is like 1,2,2,5,10,20,20,50,100,200,200,500,1000,2000,2000,5000 etc?
15. Why constantan or manganin wires are used for making the resistance coils in resistance box?
16. What is a standard resistance?
17. What are the characteristics of a standard resistance?
18. What are the precautions to be observed while doing electricity experiments in general?
19. What is a galvanometer?
20. What is the resistance of an ideal ammeter?
21. Why is ammeter always connected in series and voltmeter always connected in parallel?
22. How can we convert a galvanometer into an ammeter or a voltmeter?
23. What is shunt?
24. What is AVO meter?
25. What is the effect of temperature on the resistance of a conductor?
26. Why does the resistance of a conductor increases with temperature, whereas that of a semiconductor decreases with temperature.
27. What is conductance?
28. What are non ohmic devices? give an example.
29. What are superconductors?
30. Define emf
31. Why emf is said to be a misnomer?
32. What happens if the battery used in the primary circuit of a potentiometer has less emf compared to the emf of the cell used in the secondary circuit?
33. If you find that the galvanometer reading is shaky, what error can you expect?
34. What do you mean by figure of merit of a galvanometer?
35. Why a moving coil galvanometer is called so?
36. What is the principle of a galvanometer?

Class 12 Physics : Electrostatics Revision Test

Max marks:50 Time:2hrs

1. A glass rod rubbed with silk acquires a charge of 6×10^-12 C. Calculate the number of electrons it has gained or lost. (1)
2. If the magnitude of each charge becomes doubled, the separation between them is halved and the system of charges kept in a medium of=3 Calculate the force between them. (1)
3. If two equal charges separated by a distance of 2m in air medium experiences a force of 0.9×10¹⁰ C, Calculate the magnitude of each charge. (1)
4. Electric field intensity is 400Vm^-1 at a distance of 2 m from a point charge. At what distance it will become 100 Vm^-1? (1)
5. What will be the force experienced by a particle of charge 2µC placed in an electric field of 10kVm^-1? (1)
6. What is the work done by moving 400μF charge between two points separated by a distance of 27 cm on an equipotential surface? (1)
7. Calculate the number of electric lines of force from a charge 1.7708X10^-6 C in air medium? (1)
8. Two protons ‘A’ and ‘B’ are placed between two parallel plates having a potential difference ‘V’ as shown in the figure. Will these protons experience equal or unequal force? (1)
9. Draw an equipotential surface for a point charge q> 0(1)
10. The capacitance of a parallel plate capacitor is ‘C’. If 15 such capacitors are connected in series and then in parallel, what is the ratio of effective capacitance of first case to the second? (1)
11. What is electric polarization ,polar and non polar molecules?( 2)
12. 2) Define electrostatic induction and corona discharge. ( 2)
13. Calculate the ratio of force experienced by a proton to that of the electron placed in an electric field of 4KVm^-1. ( 2)
14. If an electrician has three capacitors of capacitances 4µF, 7µF& 12µF. How should he connect them, So that the effective capacitance will be 10µF? ( 2)
15. Define the SI unit of potential difference and charge. ( 2)
16. Two charges of 20µC and -20µC are placed 20 cm apart at points A and B respectively. Compute the electric field strength at point C, 20 cm away from both A and B.(3)
17. Three capacitors of capacitances 4µF, 6µF and 8µF are connected parallel to each other and the combination is connected across a battery of 25V. Calculate the charges present on each capacitor and the total charge flows from the source. (3)
18. Derive an expression for the torque experienced by a dipole in an external electric field. (3)
19. Obtain an expression for the capacitance of a parallel plate capacitor. (3)
20. Derive the relation E= (3)
21. Derive an expression for the potential at a point due to dipole. Write the special cases also.(5)
22. Derive an expression for ‘E’ at a point on the axial line of the dipole. (5)
23. Explain with a neat diagram the principle, construction and working of a Van de Graff generator. (5)

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Electric Flux

From: Nancy James

Subject: Electric flux
Message Body:
Could some one please explain what is written in the ncert book of PHYSICs class XII about ‘electric flux’?

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Gauss`s law

Nagendra chowdary asked : -

“A circular ring of radius r made of a non conducting material is placed with its axis is parallel to a uniform electric field if the ring rotated by 180 degrees Does the flux changes? A Q charge is uniformly distributed on a thin spherical shell If a point charge is brought near it what is the field at the center?Is u r answer depends on whether it is conducting or non conducting?”

ELECTROSTATICS TEST PAPER FOR CLASS XII

1. What orientation of an electric dipole in a uniform electric field corresponds to its stable equilibrium?

2. What is the area of the plates of a parallel plate capacitor of capacitance 2F and with separation between plates 0.5 cm?

3. What is the work done in carrying a point charge 10 nC between two points separated by a distance 5 cm on an equipotential surface?

4. A parallel plate capacitor is made by stacking ‘n’ equally spaced plates connected alternatively. If the capacitance between any two plates is ‘C’, determine the resultant capacitance of the combination

5. Calculate the coulomb force between two a particles separated by a distance of 3.2 x 10^-15 m

6. Draw graph showing variation of electric field with distance for a uniformly charged metallic sphere.

7. An electron and proton are free to move in an electric field. Which one will have greater acceleration? Why?

8. Sketch two equipotential surfaces for (a) a point charge. (b) between two plane sheets of charge.

9. Show that the work done in rotating an electric dipole of dipole moment p in a uniform electric field E by an angle θ from the equilibrium postition W = PE(1-cos θ)

10. The given graph shows the variation of charge ‘q’ verses potential difference for two capacitors C1 and C2 .The capacitors have same plate separation, but the plate area of C2 is double that of C1.Identify the line in the graph corresponding to C1 & C2 and why?

11. Derive an expression for the torque acting on an electric dipole placed in a uniform electric field.

12. Derive an expression for the capacitance of a parallel plate capacitor.

13. You are given three capacitors of value 2μF, 3μF, 6μF. How will you connect them to a resultant capacity of 4μF?

14. Two equally charged identical metal spheres A and B repel each other with a force of 2·0 x 10^-5 N. Another identical uncharged sphere C is touched to A and then placed at the mid point between A and B. What is the net force on C?

15. A dielectric slab of thickness t introduced between the plates of a parallel plate capacitor separated by a distance d. (t < d). Derive an expression for the capacitance of the capacitor

16. Describe the principle construction and working of a Van de graff Generator with the help of a neat labeled diagram.

17. Use Gauss theorem to derive an expression for the electric field at a point due to

a. an infinite plane sheet of charge of uniform charge density σ

b. a thin infinitely long straight line  of charge of uniform charge density λ

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