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Physics Gauss’s Law
December 2, 2015 by Sastry CBSE

Electric Charges and Fields Important Questions

for CBSE Class 12 Physics Gauss’s Law
1.Area Vector The vector associated with every area element of a closed surface is taken to be in the
direction of the outward normal.
Consider the diagram given as below.

Here, AS is the area vector in the direction of the unit vector n normal to the surface area AS

2.Electric Flux Electric ux linked with any surface is proportional to the total number of electric eld lines
that normally pass through that surface. It is a scalar quantity.
SI unit of electric ux is N – m2 C-1 or JmC-1 or Vm.
CGS unit of electric ux is dyne – cm2/ stat -C.
Now, consider the electric ux linked with a surface when
Previous Year Examination Questions
1 Mark Questions
1.Consider two hollow concentric spheres S1 and S2 enclosing charges 20 and 40 respectively, as shown
in the gure, (i) Find out the ratio of the electric ux through them, (ii) How will the electric ux through the
spheres S1 change if a medium of dielectric constant er is introduced in the space inside S1 in place of
air? Deduce the necessary expression. [All India 2014]
Ans.

2.Two charges of magnitudes –20 and + O are located at points (a, 0) and (4a, 0), respectively. What is the
electric ux due to these charges through a sphere of radius 3a with its centre at the origin? [All India
2013]
Ans.
3.A charge q is placed at the centre of a cube of side L. What is the electric ux passing through each
face of the cube? [All India 2010; Foreign 2010]
Ans.

4.Figure shows three point charges,+ 2q, – q and + 3q. Two charges + 2q and – q are enclosed within a
surface S. What is the electric ux due to this con guration through the surface S?   [Delhi 2010]

Ans.

5.If the radius of the Gaussian surface enclosing a charge is halved, how does the electric ux through the
Gaussian surface change?[All India 2009,2008]
Ans.Total charge enclosed by the Gaussian surface remains same even when radius is halved. Therefore,
total electric ux remains constant as per Gauss’ theorem. There will not be any change in electric ux
through the Gaussian surface.

2 Marks Questions
6.Given a   uniform  electric  held E =5 x 103 i N/C, nd the ux of this held through a square of 10 cm on a
side whose plane is parallel to the YZ-plane. What would be the ux through the same square if the plane
makes an angle of 30° with the X-axis?       [Delhi 2014]
Ans.

7.Given a   uniform    electric     held E =2 x 103 i N/C, nd the ux of this held through a square of side 20
cm, whose plane is parahel to the YZ-plane. What would be the ux through the same square if the plane
makes an angle of 30° with the X-axis?      [Delhi 2014, HOTS]
Ans.Refer to ans. 6. (Ans 40 Nm2/C)

8.Given a   uniform    electric  held E = 4 x 103 i N/C. Find the ux of this eld through a square of 5 cm on
a side whose plane is parallel to the YZ-plane. What would be the ux through the same square if the
plane makes an angle of 30° with the X-axis?       [Delhi 2014, HOTS]
Ans.Refer to ans 6. (Ans. 5 Nm2/C)

9.A sphere St of radius q enclosed a net charge Q. If there is another concentric sphere S2 of radius r2(r2 >
q) enclosing charge 20, hnd the ratio of the electric hux through S1 and S2. How will the electric ux
through sphere Sj change if a medium of dielectric constant K is introduced in the space inside S2 in place
Of air?  [All India 2014]
Ans.

Ans.A thin straight conducting wire will be a uniform linear charge distribution.
Let q charge be enclosed by the cylindrical surface.

11.Two charged conducting spheres of radii rt and r2 connected to each other by a wire. Find the ratio of
electric elds at the surfaces of the two spheres. [Delhi 2011 c]
Ans.

Ans.
13.A spherical conducting shell of inner radius R1 and outer radius R2 has a charge Q. A charge q is placed
at the centre of the shell. [All India 2010c]
(i)What is the surface charge density on the (a) inner surface, (b) outer surface of the shell?
(ii)Write the expression for the electric eld at a point to x>R2 from the centre of the shell.
Ans.Here, two points are important
(i) Charge resides on the outer surface of spherical conductor (skin effect).
(ii) Equal charge of opposite nature induces in the surface of conductor nearer to source charge.

14.De ne electric ux. Write its SI unit. A charge gis enclosed by a spherical surface of radius [All India
2009]
Ans.The total electric ux linked with a surface is equal to the total number of electric lines of force passing
through the surface when surface is held normal to the direction of electric eld.
15.Draw the shapes of the suitable Gaussian surfaces while applying Gauss’ law to calculate the electric
eld due to
(i)a uniformly charged long straight wire.
(ii)a uniformly charged in nite plane sheet. [Delhi 2009 C]
Ans.The surface that we choose for application of Gauss’ theorem is called Gaussian surface. We usually
choose a spherical Gaussian surface.
Ans.

Ans.
Ans.

3 Marks Questions
19.A hollow cylindrical box of lenght 1 m and area of cross-section 25 cm2 is placed in a three-
dimensional coordinate system as shown in the gure.
Ans.
20.State Gauss’ law in electrostatics. A cube which each side a is kept in an electric eld given by E = as
shown in the gure, where C is a positive dimensional constant. Find out
(i)the electric ux through the cube
(ii)the net charge inside the cube.[Foreign 2012]
Ans.
21.Using Gauss’ law, obtain the expression for the electric eld due to uniformly charged spherical shell of
radius R at a point outside the shell. Draw a graph showing the variation of electric eld with r, for r > R
and r < R.[All India 2011]
Ans.Let us consider charge +q is uniformly distributed over a spherical shell of radius R. Let £ is to be
obtained at P lying outside of spherical shell.
Eat any point is radially outward (if charge q is positive) and has same magnitude at all points which lie at
the same distance r from centre of spherical shell such that r> R.
Ans.
23.State Gauss’ law in electrostatics. Using this law, derive an expression for the electric eld due to a
uniformly charged in nite plane Sheet.       [Delhi 2009]
Ans.
Let us consider a large plane sheet of charge having surface charge density sigma
Ans.(i)
4 Marks Questions
25.Using Gauss’ law, deduce the expression for the electric eld due to a uniformly charged spherical
conducting shell of radius R at a point
(i)outside the shell
(ii)inside the shell
Plot a graph showing variation of electric eld as a function of r > R and r < R.{r being the distance from
the centre of the shell) [All India 2013]
Ans.
26.(i) De ne electric ux. Write its SI unit.
(ii) A small metal sphere carrying charge + Q is located at the centre of a spherical cavity inside a large
uncharged metallic spherical shell as shown in the gure.Use Gauss’ law to nd the expressions for the
electric eld at points Pl and P2.

(iii)Draw the pattern of electric eld lines in this arrangement.[Delhi 2012 C]

Ans.
(iii) The electric eld lines due to arrangement is shown as below:

Charges will be uniformly distributed on all the surfaces hence, all eld lines will be uniformly separated.

27.De ne electric ux. Write its SI unit, (ii) Using Gauss’ law, prove that the electric eld at a point due to a
uniformly charged in nite plane sheet is independent of distance from it.
How is the eld directed if
(a)the sheet is positively charged
(b)negatively charged? [Delhi 2012]
Ans.(i) Electric ux Electric ux over an area in an electric eld represents the total number of electric lines
of force crossing the area in a direction normal to the plane of the area. The SI unit of electric ux is N-m2/C
(ii)
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Let us consider a large plane sheet of charge having surface charge density sigma
The eld directed

Normally away from the sheet when sheet is positively charged.

Normally inward towards the sheet when plane sheet is negatively charged.

28.(i) State Gauss’ law. Use it to deduce the expression for the electric eld due to a uniformly charged
thin spherical shell at points
 inside the shell and
outside the shell.

(ii) Two identical metallic spheres A and B having charges +40 and – 10O are kept a certain distance
apart. A third identical uncharged sphere C is rst placed in contact with sphere A and then with sphere B.
Then, spheres A and Bare brought in contact and then separated. Find the charges on the spheres A and
B.[All India 2011C]
Ans.(i) 
(ii)
29.(i) De ne electric ux. Write its SI unit, (ii) The electric eld components due to a charge inside the
cube of side 0.1 m are shown below.
Ans.(i)Electric ux Electric ux over an area in an electric eld represents the total number of electric lines
of force crossing the area in a direction normal to the plane of the area. The SI unit of electric ux is N-m2/C
(ii) The electric eld is directed along +X-axis. Therefore, angle between E and A for left face is 180°,
whereas for right face is 0°. The angle between E and A on four non-shaded faces is 90°. Therefore, ux
linked with these four faces is zero.
Ans.(i)Electric ux Electric ux over an area in an electric eld represents the total number of electric lines
of force crossing the area in a direction normal to the plane of the area. The SI unit of electric ux is N-m2/C
Ans.The electric lines of force emerge from the positive charge and comes into the negative charge.
(i)
Electric eld lines due to positive and negative charged spherical shell are as given below in gures (a) and
(b) I respectively
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