Session 01

Question and Answers

1.1 Electricity in Materials

1. What is the earliest observation made by
man on electricity?
2. How do you call Amber in Greek?
3. What do you mean by electrostatic?
4. Why cant we electrify metallic bodies just
by friction?
5. Then, what's the way to electrify metallic
bodies?
6. How do you classify materials?

Session 01
Question and Answers

1.2 Positive and Negative Electricity

1. What happen when glass rod brought closer to
wool cloth (Fur) after rubbing them together?
2. What happen when amber rod brought closer to
silk cloth after rubbing them together?
3. What happen when glass rod rubbed with fur
brought closer to amber rod rubbed with silk?
4. What is the conclusion you can arrive with these
observations?
5. If there is a third type of charge, what can be
observe with charged amber rod and charged
glass rod?

Session 01
Question and Answers
1.3 Electronic Structure of Matter
1.
Why do the materials generally neutral?
2.
How do the materials negatively and positively charged?
3.
What is the difference between metals and insulators in
electronic point of view?
1.4 Methods of Charging
4.
What are the three methods to Charge a body?
5.
What is meant by electron affinity?
6.
What do you call material arranged according to their
electron affinity?

Session 01
Question and Answers

1.4 Methods of Charging

4. Is it possible to charge one material positively
and again same material negatively?
5. Explain the electrification by friction
6. Explain the electrification by induction
7. Explain the electrification by conduction
8. What are the materials that can be electrified
following each method?
9. Has charge created in any of the above method?
10. State the conservation of charge

Session 01
Question and Answers

1.6 Coulombs Law of Electrostatic Force

1. What is the interaction between like charges
and unlike charges?
2. Who was the first to quantitatively calculate
this electrostatic force?
3. Why it is called coulombs inverse square law?
4. Write another law with inverse square
1.7 Unit of Charge
5. How do you define one Ampere of current?

Session 02
Question and Answers

2.1 Concept of Electric Field

1. What is the normal way of exerting a force on a
body?
2. How do you exert a force on a body without
touching it?
3. Give few examples for fields?
4. When do you have an electric field?

Session 02
Question and Answers

2.2 Electric Field Intensity

1. How do you find the presence of an electric field?
2. What is the force acting on a charge q when
placed in an electric field E?
3. How do you define electric field?
4. Derive expression for electric field using
Coulombs Law.
5. What is the unit of electric field intensity?
6. Why do we consider point charge when defining
electric field?

Session 02
Question and Answers

2.3 Lines of Force

1. What are the properties of electric lines of force?
2. What can you interpret by looking at electric field lines?
3. What happen to the electric field of a point charge with
the distance?
2.4 The Principle of Superposition
4. What is meant by principle of superposition?
5. How does it applied to electric fields?
6. Write an expression for the electric field due to n
number of charges when they are (a) discrete (b)
continuous
7. What are the other applications of principle of
superposition in static electricity?

Session 02
Question and Answers

2.5 Field of an Electric Dipole

1. What is a electric dipole
2. What is the direction of electric dipole?
3. How do you define dipole moment?
4. What happen to the electric field depending on the
separation of the charges and distance to the point?
2.6 Dipole in an Electric Field
1. What happen when a dipole is placed in an electric
field?
2. Give an expression for the torque?