Numerical on Electrostatics

1. Which is bigger -a coulomb or a charge on an electron? How many electron charges form on coulomb of charge?
2. A comb drawn through persons hair on a dry day causes 1022 electrons to leave the persons hair and stick to the
comb. Calculate the charge carried by the comb.
3. If a body gives out 109 electrons every second, how much time is required to get total charge of 1 C from it?
4. Calculate the charge carried by 12.5108 electrons?
5. How many electrons would have to be removed from cupper penny to leave it with a positive charge of 10-7 C?
6. Calcite the charge on alpha particle. Given charge on proton =1.610-19C.
7. Determine the total charge on 75.0kg of electron.
8. The electrostatics force between two positive charged ions carrying equal charges is 3.710-9 N ,when they are
separated by a distance of 5 . How many electrons are missing from each ion? Ans=2
9. A pitch-ball A of 8 g carries a positive charge of 510-8C. What must be the nature and magnitude of charge that
should be given to second pitch ball B fixed 5 cm bellow the former ball so that the upper ball is stationary?
10. Two similarly equally charged identical metal spheres A and B repel each other with a force of 2.010-5 N. A
third identical uncharged sphere C is touched to A , then placed at the mid-point between A and B . Calculate the net
electrostatic force on C.
11. Two identical charges, Q each ,are kept at a distance r from each other. A third charge q is placed on the line
joining the above two charges such that all the three charges are in equilibrium. What should be the magnitude
.nature and position of q ? ans q=Q/4
12. Two point charges +4e and +e are fixed a distance a apart . where should a third charge q be placed on the line
joining the two charges q so that it may be in equilibrium in which case the equilibrium will be stable and in which is
unstable?
13. A charge Q is to be divided on two objects. What should be the values of the charges on the two objects so that
the force between the objects can be maximum?
14. Two identical spheres, having charges of opposite sign attract each other with a force of 0.108 N when
separated distance 0.5m. The sphere are connected by a conducting wire , which then removed ,and thereafter they
repel each other with a force of 0.036n.what were the initial charges on the spheres?
15. Two small spheres each having mass m kg and charge q coulomb are suspended from a point by insulating
threds each 1 m long but of negligible mass. If is the angle , each thread makes with vertical when equilibrium has
attained show that q2= (4 mgl2sin2 tan) 4
16. Two point charges q1 and q2 are 3m apart and their combined charge is 20C . if one repels the other with a
force o 0.075N, waht is the two charges?