DELHI PUBLIC SCHOOL

NAVI MUMBAI
ONLINE REVISION ASSESSMENT 2021-22
Class : XII M.Marks : 25
Subject :Physics(042) DURATION : 1 Hour

This question paper consists of 12 questions and 4 pages.

Q1- Q4 are very short answer questions carrying 1 mark each.

Q1 What is the electric flux through a cube of side 1cm which encloses an electric dipole ? 1

Q2 A point charge Q is placed at the point O in following figure. Is the potential difference
VA – VB positive, negative or zero if Q is positive ? Justify
1

Q3 Electric dipole moment of CuSo4 molecule is 3.2 x10-32Cm. Find the separation between
copper and sulphate ions. 1

Q4 What is the orientation of electric field vector to an equipotential surface ? 1

For question numbers 5 and 6, two statements are given-one labelled Assertion (A) and
the other labelled Reason (R). Select the correct answer to these questions from the codes
(a), (b), (c) and (d) as given below:
a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
b) Both A and R are true but R is NOT the correct explanation of A
c) A is true but R is false
d) A is false and R is also false

Q5 Assertion (A): The charge on a body can be increased or decreased in terms of ‘e’.
Reason (R): Quantisation of charge means that the charge on a body is the integral multiple of ‘e’ 1

Q6 Assertion (A): Electrostatic field lines start at positive charge and end up at negative
charge.
Reason(R): field lines are continuous curves without any breaks and they form closed
loops. 1

Question 7 is a Case based question followed by 4 multiple choice questions (as sub-
parts). Each question carries 1 mark.

Q7 Capacitors can be used to store electrical energy. The amount of energy stored is equal to the
work done to charge it. During the charging process, the battery does work to remove
charges from one plate and deposit them onto the other.
Work is done by an external agent in bringing +dq from the negative plate and depositing the
charge on the positive plate.

Let the capacitor be initially uncharged. In each plate of the capacitor, there are many
negative and positive charges, but the number of negative charges balances the number of
positive charges, so that there is no net charge, and therefore no electric field between the
plates.

Hypothetically, if we have a magic bucket and a set of stairs from the bottom plate to the top
plate (refer the figure). We start out at the bottom plate, fill our magic bucket with a charge
+dq , carry the bucket up the stairs and dump the contents of the bucket on the top plate,
charging it up positive to charge +dq . However, in doing so, the bottom plate is now
charged to −dq . Having emptied the bucket of charge, we now descend the stairs, get
another bucketful of charge +dq, go back up the stairs and dump that charge on the top plate.
We then repeat this process over and over. In this way we build up charge on the capacitor,
and create electric field where there was none initially.

Hence, the total amount of work done in the process is stored as the electrical potential
energy UE of the system.

Q7 The work done in placing a charge of 8 x 10-18 C on a capacitor of capacity 100μF is

(i) (a) 16 x 10-32 J (b) 3.1 x 10-26 J (c) 4 x 10-10 J (d) 32 x 10-32 J 1

Q7 A parallel plate air capacitor with no dielectric between the plates is connected to the constant
(ii) voltage source. How would capacitance and energy stored change if dielectric of dielectric
constant K=2 is inserted between the plates. C0 and U0 are the capacitance and energy of the
capacitor before the introduction of the dielectric.

a) C=C0/2 ; U=2U0
b) C=2C0 ; U =U0/2
c) C=C0/2 ; U=U0/2
d) C=2C0 ; U=2U0 1
Q7 In a parallel plate capacitor, the distance between the plates is d and potential difference across
(iii) the plates is V. Energy density of electric field between the capacitor plates is given by
(a) (b) 𝜖 (c) (d) 𝜖
1

Q7 The following arrangement of capacitors is connected to a source of 6V potential supply at

(iv) A & B. The total energy stored in the given network of capacitors is

(a) 1.8 x 10-5 J (b) 1.8 x 105 J (c) 3.6 x 10-5 J (d) 3.6 x 105 J 1

Q8 Figures (a) and (b) shown below represent a dielectric substance with its polar molecules
aligned in two different arrangements:

Figure (a) figure (b)

(i) Which of the two figures corresponds to 𝐸⃗ = 0 and 𝐸⃗ ≠ 0, where 𝐸⃗ is the external
electric field applied to the dielectric.
2
(ii) Define polarization vector. Give its SI unit.
QT
9 Derive an expression for the torque experienced by a dipole kept in a uniform electric field. 2

Q10 Three point charges q,-4q and 2q are placed at the vertices of an equilateral triangle ABC of
side ‘l ’ as shown in the figure. Obtain the expression for the magnitude and direction of the
resultant electric force acting on the charge q.

3
Q11 Derive an expression for the electric potential at any point P at a distance r from the centre of
a short electric dipole inclined at an angle θ to its axis. What is the electrostatic potential due
to an electric dipole at an equatorial point? 3

Q12
(a) (i) Using Gauss’ Law, prove that the electric field at a point due to a uniformly charged
infinite plane sheet is independent of the distance from it.

(b) (ii)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 x 10-22 C/m2.
What is the electric field strength E :
(a) (a) in the outer regions of the first plate
( (b) in the outer region of the second plate
(c) between the plates ? 5