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Electrostatics questions with answers

106 multiple-choice questions. Open any question for its answer and explanation.

  1. A capacitor having capacitance of 5 uF is charged to a potential difference of 10,000 V. The energy stored in the capacitor is
  2. A charge which when placed in vacuum from an equal and similar charge repels with a force of 9 x 103 N, is known as
  3. at a point is equal to the negative potential gradient at that point.
  4. A capacitor consists of two
  5. capacitors are used for audio frequency and radio frequency coupling and tuning.
  6. The units of volume charge density are
  7. capacitors are mainly used for radio frequency tuning.
  8. capacitors can be used only for D.C.
  9. Electric field intensity is a quantity
  10. Electric displacement is a______quantity.
  11. Which of the following is not a vector ?
  12. An electric field line and an equipotential surface are
  13. The relative permittivity has the following units
  14. A capacitor stores 0.24 coulombs at 10 volts. Its capacitance is
  15. Which of the following capacitors is marked for polarity ?
  16. The phenomenon of an uncharged body getting charged merely by the nearness of a charged body is known as
  17. Which is the most superior dielectric out of the following ?
  18. To prevent the generation of static charges on rubber or flat leather
  19. The lines of force due to charged particles are
  20. The inverse of capacitance is called
  21. The direction of electric field due +0 positive charge is .
  22. The capacity of capacitor bank used in power factor correction is expressed in terms of
  23. The capacitance of a capacitor is not affected by
  24. The potential gradient across the material of low permittivity is than across the material of high permittivity.
  25. Paper condenser is