Electrostatics I — Charges, Field & Gauss's Law — JEE Main PYQs & Practice Questions

Electrostatics I — Charges, Field & Gauss's Law is a Physics chapter in the JEE Main syllabus. This page brings together 154 previous-year and practice questions on Electrostatics I — Charges, Field & Gauss's Law, organised into 4 topics: Coulomb's Law, Electric Field, Electric Field Lines and Flux and Gauss's Law and Applications. Most questions come with a step-by-step solution you can work through free in PrepWiser.

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Coulomb's Law

• Two identical tennis balls each having mass 'm' and charge 'q' are suspended from a…
• Two identical conducting spheres P and S with charge Q on each, repel each other with a…
• A small uncharged conducting sphere is placed in contact with an identical sphere but…
• Two particles A and B having charges 20μC and -5μC respectively are held fixed with a…
• Three point charges q,-2 q and 2 q are placed on x-axis at a distance x=0, x=3/4 R and…
• A point charge q₁=4q₀ is placed at origin. Another point charge q₂=-q₀ is placed at x=12…
• A 10 μ C charge is divided into two parts and placed at 1 cm distance so that the…
• In hydrogen like system the ratio of coulombian force and gravitational force between an…
• Two small spheres each of mass 10 mg are suspended from a point by threads 0.5 m long…
• Two identical conducting spheres with negligible volume have 2.1 nC and -0.1 nC charges…
• Two identical charged spheres are suspended by strings of equal lengths. The strings…
• Two point charges q₁=3μ C and q₂=-4μ C are placed at points (2î+3ĵ+3k̂) and (î+ĵ+k̂)…
• Two point charges of +2 μ C each are separated by 1 m in vacuum. The force between them…
• A charge of 4 μ C is to be divided into two. The distance between the two divided…
• An infinite number of point charges, each carrying 1 μC charge, are placed along the…
• Two charges +q and -q placed 2 m apart attract with 9 N. Find q²/10⁻⁹ in C² (take k=9×…
• As shown in the figure, a configuration of two equal point charges (q₀=+2 μ C) is placed…
• If two charges q₁ and q₂ are separated with distance 'd' and placed in a medium of…
• Three point charges of magnitude 5 μ C, 0.16 μ C and 0.3 μ C are located at the vertices…
• If the distance between two charges is doubled, the electrostatic force becomes:

Electric Field

• The vehicles carrying inflammable fluids usually have metallic chains touching the ground:
• A point charge of 10 μC is placed at the origin. At what location on the X-axis should a…
• Given below are two statements. Statement I : Electric potential is constant within and…
• What will be the magnitude of electric field at point O as shown in the figure? Each…
• Find the electric field at point P (as shown in figure) on the perpendicular bisector of…
• A simple pendulum has a bob with mass m and charge q. The pendulum string has negligible…
• A positive charge particle of 100 mg is thrown in opposite direction to a uniform…
• Two point charges A and B of magnitude +8 × 10⁻⁶ C and -8 × 10⁻⁶ C respectively are…
• A cube of side 'a' has point charges +Q located at each of its vertices except at the…
• The electric field at point p due to an electric dipole is E. The electric field at…
• A body having specific charge 8 μC/g is resting on a frictionless plane at a distance 10…
• Two small spherical balls of mass 10 g each with charges -2 μ C and 2 μ C, are attached…
• Charges Q₁ and Q₂ are at points A and B of a right angle triangle OAB (see figure). The…
• A point charge +q is placed at the origin. A second point charge +9 q is placed at (d…
• A point particle of charge Q is located at P along the axis of an electric dipole 1 at a…
• Find out the surface charge density at the intersection of point x = 3 m plane and…
• An electric dipole of mass m, charge q, and length l is placed in a uniform electric…
• Six point charges are kept 60° apart from each other on the circumference of a circle of…
• Consider two infinitely large plane parallel conducting plates as shown below. The…
• A vertical electric field of magnitude 4.9 × 10⁵ N/C just prevents a water droplet of a…

Electric Field Lines and Flux

• Identify the correct statements : A. Electrostatic field lines form closed loops. B. The…
• Electric field lines:
• The electric field in a region is given by E⃗ = 2/5E₀î + 3/5E₀ĵ with E₀ = 4.0 × 10³N/C…
• Choose the incorrect statement : (1) The electric lines of force entering into a…
• An electric field is given by (6 î+5 ĵ+3 k̂) N / C. The electric flux through a surface…
• An electric field, E⃗=(2 î+6 ĵ+8 k̂)/√6 passes through the surface of 4 m² area having…
• The electric field in a region is given by E⃗=(2 î+4 ĵ+6 k̂) × 10³ N / C. The flux of…
• The volume charge density of a sphere of radius 6 m is 2 μ C cm⁻³. The number of lines…
• The electric field in a region is given by E⃗ = ( 3/5E₀î + 4/5E₀ĵ )N/C. The ratio of…

Gauss's Law and Applications

• A cube is placed inside an electric field, E⃗ = 150y²ĵ. The side of the cube is 0.5 m…
• The electrostatic potential in a charged spherical region of radius r varies as V=ar³+b…
• As shown in figure, a cuboid lies in a region with electric field E=2 x² î-4 y ĵ+6 k̂ N…
• A cubical volume is bounded by the surfaces x=0, x=a, y=0, y=a, z=0, z=a. The electric…
• Two point charges 2q and q are placed at vertex A and centre of face CDEF of the cube as…
• A particle of charge '-q' and mass 'm' moves in a circle of radius 'r' around an…
• A point charge of +12μC is at a distance 6 cm vertically above the centre of a square of…
• Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled…
• Sixty four conducting drops each of radius 0.02 m and each carrying a charge of 5 μC are…
• A small bob of mass 100 mg and charge +10 μ C is connected to an insulating string of…
• Two uniformly charged spherical conductors A and B of radii 5 mm and 10 mm are separated…
• A square loop of sides a=1 m is held normally in front of a point charge q=1 C at a…
• A rigid dipole undergoes a simple harmonic motion about its centre in the presence of an…
• Given below are two statements : one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is…
• Two point charges 8 μ C and -2 μ C are located at x=2 cm and x=4 cm, respectively on the…
• As shown in the figure, a point charge Q is placed at the centre of conducting spherical…
• The electric flux is φ=α σ+β λ where λ and σ are linear and surface charge density…
• Expression for an electric field is given by E⃗=4000 x² î V/m. The electric flux through…
• A solid metal sphere of radius R having charge q is enclosed inside the concentric…
• Let σ be the uniform surface charge density of two infinite thin plane sheets shown in…

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How many Electrostatics I — Charges, Field & Gauss's Law questions are there for JEE Main?

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