INDIAN SCHOOL BOUSHER

ACADEMIC YEAR 2024 - 2025

PERIODIC TEST - 1

Subject: PHYSICS (042) Grade: XII Section:

Date of Exam : Time: 1 hour Maximum Marks:30

Name of the student:

Instructions:
1. Please check that this question paper contains 3 printed pages with 5 sections.
2. There are 14 questions in the question paper.
3. 10-minutes time has been allotted to read this question paper. Use this time for
reading/listening to each instruction and question.
4. Keep the last 5 minutes for revising all the answers before handing over the
answer sheet to the facilitator.
5. Wherever necessary, neat and properly labelled diagrams should be drawn.

( Subject Specific Instructions are to be included as per the CBSE pattern )

SECTION - A
S NO. QUESTION MARKS
Equipotentials at a great distance from a collection of charges whose total
1
sum is not zero are approximately
1. (a) spheres (b) planes

(c) paraboloides (d) ellipsoids

The magnitude of the electric field due to a point charge object at a distance 1
2. of 4.0 m is 9 N/C. From the same charged object, the electric field of
magnitude, 16 N/C will be at a distance of _________.
1m (b) 2m (c) 3m (d) 6m

If the electric flux entering and leaving a closed surface in the air are ᶲ 1 and
3.
ᶲ 2 respectively, the net electric charge enclosed within the surface is ______.
1

ᶲ 1−ᶲ 2
(a) (ᶲ ¿ ¿ 1−ᶲ 2)¿ (b)
ε0

(c) (ᶲ ¿ ¿ 1−ᶲ 2) ε 0 ¿ (d) (ᶲ ¿ ¿ 1+ᶲ 2) ε 0 ¿

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 A point P lies at a distance x from the midpoint of an electric dipole on its
4. 1
axis. The electric potential at point P is proportional to
1 1 1 1
(a) 2 (b) 3 (c) 4 (d) 1 /2
x x x x
ASSERTION REASON BASED QUESTIONS In the following questions, a statement of
Assertion(A) is followed by a statement of Reason (R). Choose the correct answer out
of the following choices
a. Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
b. Both A and R are true and R is not the correct explanation of A.
c. A is true but R is false.
d. A is false but R is true.
Assertion (A): In a non-uniform electric field, a dipole will have translatory as
5. 1
well as rotatory motion.
Reason (R): In a non-uniform electric field, a dipole experiences a force as
well as torque.
Assertion (A): Workdone in moving charge around a closed path, in an
6. 1
electric field always zero.
Reason (R): Electrostatic force is a conservative force.

SECTION - B
7. Two charges 3 × 10-8 C and –2 × 10-8 C are located 15 cm apart. At what 2
point on the line joining the two charges is the electric potential zero? Take
the potential at infinity to be zero.
8. (a) Define electric field. The electric field E due to a point charge at any point 2
F
is defined as lim , where q is the test charge and F is the force acting on
q →0 q

it. What is the physical significance of the lim ¿ in this field expression?
q →0

(b) Draw the pattern of field lines around a point charge (i) q>0 (ii) q<0.

9. Consider two identical point charges located at points (0,0) and (a,0). 2

1. Is there a point on the line joining them at which electric field is zero?

2. Is there a point on the line joining them at which the electric potential is
zero?

Justifify your answer in each case.

SECTION - C
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10. The electric field components in the following figure are E x = x 2 , Ey = Ez = 0, 3
in which α = 800N/Cm2 . Calculate (a) the flux ϕ E through the cube and (b)
the charge within the cube. Assume that a = 1m.

Derive an expression for the electric potential at a point due to an electric

11. 3
dipole. Mention the contrasting features of electric potential of a dipole at
appoint as compared that due to a single charge.

12. (a) An infinitely long thin straight wire has a uniform linear charge density λ . 3
Obtain an expression for the electric field (E) at a point P lying at a distance r
from the wire, using Gauss’s law.

(b) Show graphically the variation of this electric field E as a function of

distance r from the wire.

SECTION - D
13. (a) What is an electric dipole ?

(b) Derive an expression for the torque acting on an electric dipole of dipole
→ →
moment p placed in a uniform electric field E . Hence define the dipole 5
moment.
(c ) 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 × 10 4 NC-1. Calculate
the magnitude of the torque acting on the dipole.

SECTION - E

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 Case Study Base Questions:
14.

The easiest way to experience electric charge is to rub certain solid bodies
against each other. Long ago, around 600 BC, the Greeks knew that when
amber is rubbed with wool, it acquires the property of attracting light objects
such as small pieces of paper. This is because amber becomes electrically
charged. If we pass a comb through dry hair, the comb becomes electrically
charged and can attract small pieces of paper. An automobile becomes
charged when it travels through the air. A paper sheet becomes charged when
it passes through a printing machine. A gramophone record becomes charged
when cleaned with a dry cloth.

The explanation of appearance of electric charge on rubbing is simple. All

material bodies contain large number of electrons and equal number of
protons in their normal state. When rubbed against each other, some
electrons from one body may pass on to the other body. The body that
receives the extra electrons becomes negatively charged and the body that
donates the electrons becomes positively charged because it has more protons
than electrons. Thus, when a glass rod is rubbed with a silk cloth, electrons
are transferred from the glass rod to the silk cloth. The glass rod becomes
positively charged and the silk cloth becomes negatively charged.

On the basis of above information, answer the following questions:

1. In above phenomenon the cause of charging is?

1

2. A large non-conducting sheet S is given a uniform charge density. Two

uncharged small metal rods A and B are kept near the sheet as shown in the 1
figure. Which of the following is true?

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(a) S attracts A (b) S attracts B

(c) A attracts B (d) All of these

3. Charge q is distributed to two different metallic spheres having radii R and

2R such that both spheres have equally surface charge density. Then charge
on larger sphere is ? 2

(OR)

Charge on a body which carries 300 excess electron is ?

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