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Some Basic QA for Electric Field and Potential Part-1

Fill in the blanks:

(1)Those substances which readily allow the passage of electricity through them are called…………………

(2) Those substances which offer high resistance to the passage of electricity are called…………………….

(3) Units of Charge in SI unit is……………………..

(4). Electric filed lines start on …………………..charge and end on …………………………. charge

(5) The tangent on these lines at any point gives ……………………………………….. at that point.

(6) Two point charges of same magnitude and opposite nature separated by a small distance altogether   form……………………………………………

(7) Electric Dipole Moment is a ……………………………………..quantity (vector / scalar)

(8)  Dipole is said to be in stable equilibrium in uniform electric field when angle between p and E is ……………

(9) Dipole is in unstable equilibrium when the angle between p and E is ……………

(10) Equipotential surfaces due to a system of charges…………………. intersect each other (do/ do not)

Answers:

1

2

3

4

5

Conductor

Insulator

Coulomb

Positive, negative

Direction of electric field

6

7

8

9

10

Electric dipole

vector

0 degree

180 degree

Do not