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Unit Test - 1 (Online Assessment) July 2021
Subject: Physics (042)
Class: XII Time: 1hr. 30 min
Date: 07-07-2021 Max. Marks: 30
General Instructions:
(1) All questions are compulsory. There are 16 questions in all.
(2) This question paper has five sections: Section A, Section B, Section C, Section D and Section E.
(3) Section A contains 5 very short answer questions and four assertion reasoning MCQs of 1 mark each,
(4) Section B has one case- based question of 4 marks,
(5) Section C contains three short answer questions of 2 marks each,
(6) Section D contains two short answer questions of 3 marks each and
(7) Section E contains one long answer questions of 5 marks.
(8) There is no overall choice. However internal choice is provided. You have to attempt only one of the
choices in such questions.

SECTION –A
1. What does q1 + q2 = 0 signify in electrostatics?
2. On what factors does the capacitance of a capacitor depend?
3. An air capacitor is given a charge of 2μC raising its potential to 200V. If on inserting a dielectric medium, its
potential falls to 50V, what is the dielectric constant of the medium?
4. Give the expression for current in terms of drift velocity.
5. A (i) series (ii) parallel combination of two given resistors is connected one-by-one, across a cell. In which
case will the terminal potential difference, across the cell have a higher value?

For question numbers 6, 7, 8 and 9 two statements are given-one labeled Assertion (A) and the other
labeled 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

6. Assertion: A metallic shield in the form of a hollow shell may be built to block an electric field.
Reason: In a hollow spherical shield, the electric field inside it is zero at every point.
7. Assertion: Dielectric polarization means formation of positive and negative charges inside the dielectric
Reason: Free electrons are formed in this process.
8. Assertion: Though large number of free electrons are present in the metal. Yet there is no current in the
absence of electric field.
Reason: In the absence of electric field electrons move randomly in all directions.

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9. Assertion: The value of temperature coefficient of resistance is positive for metals.
Reason: The value of temperature coefficient of resistance for insulator is also positive,

SECTION –B
Question10 is a Case Study based question.

Field and Potential due to Electric dipole

Electric field of an electric dipole at a point in space depends upon the position of the point.

The dipole field at a point is inversely proportional to the cube of distance from the center to the point.

An electric potential is the amount of work needed to move a unit positive charge from a reference point to a
specific point inside an electric field without producing acceleration. A dipole is a pair of opposite charges
with equal magnitudes separated by a distance, d.
The electric potential due to a point charge q at a distance of r from that charge is given by,
V = q/4πε0 r, Where ε0 is the permittivity of free space.
The electric potential is a scalar field whose gradient becomes the electrostatic vector field. Since it is a
scalar field, it is easy to find the potential due to a system of charges. It is the summation of the electric
potentials at a point due to individual charges.

(i) If E1 be the electric field strength of a short dipole at a point

on its axial line and E2 that on the equatorial line at the same
distance, then
(a) E1 = E2 (b) E1 = 2E2
(c) E2 = 2E1 (d) E1 = E2/2

(ii) Find the angle between electric field and equipotential surface?
(a) 90֠ always (b) 0֠ always (c) 0 to 90 degrees (d) 0 to 180 degrees

(iii) The electric field due to an electric dipole of length 10 cm having charges of 1 μ C at an equatorial point 12
cm from the centre of the dipole is
(a) 2.048 x105 N/C (b) 4.096 x105 N/C (c) 8.192 x105 N/C (d) 6.082 x105 N/C

(iv) The electric potential V at any point x, y, z (all the coordinates) are in metres in space is given by V= 4x2 volt.
The electric field at a point (1m,0,2m) in V/m is
(a) 8 along negative X - axis (b) 8 along positive X-axis
(b) 16 along negative X –axis (d) 16 along positive X axis.

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SECTION – C

11. (i) Two charges of magnitudes -3Q and +2Qare located at points (a,0) and (4a,0) respectively. What is the
electric flux due to these charges through a sphere of radius 5a with its centre at the origin?
(ii) How does the Coulomb force between two point charges depend upon the dielectric constant of the
medium?
12. Obtain an expression for the work done to dissociate the system of three charges placed at the vertices of an
equilateral triangle of side ‘a’.
13. The variation of the resistance of metallic conductor with temperature is as shown:
(i) Calculate the temperature coefficient of resistance from the
graph.
(ii) State why the resistance of the conductor increases with the
rise in temperature.

SECTION – D

14. (i) Obtain an expression for the torque τ experienced by an electric dipole of dipole moment p in a uniform
field E.
(ii) What happens when an electric dipole is held in a non-uniform electric field? What will be the force and
the torque when the dipole is held parallel or antiparallel to the electric field?
15. Using Kirchoff’s laws in the electrical network shown, calculate the values of I1, I2, I3.

SECTION – E
16. (i) A capacitor is charged with a battery and then its plate separation is increased without disconnecting the
battery. What will be the change in
(a) Energy stored in the capacitor?
(b) Potential difference across the plates of the capacitor?
(c) Charge stored in the capacitor?

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(ii) Two dielectric slabs of dielectric constants κ1 and κ2 are filled in between the two plates, each of area A, of
the parallel plate capacitor as shown. Find the net capacitance of the capacitor.

OR

(i) Draw a circuit diagram of a metre bridge used to determine the unknown resistance R of a given
wire. Hence derive the expression for R in terms of the known resistance S.
(ii) A potentiometer wire is 10 m long and has a resistance of 18Ω. It is connected to a battery of emf
5V and internal resistance 2 Ω. Calculate the potential gradient along the wire.

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