Electrostatics
What unit is used to measure electric potential (voltage)?
Ampere
Volt
Coulomb
Watt
A long cylindrical conductor carries a uniformly distributed free charge along its length; if represents potential at a distance from its axis, how does change outside the conductor?
It increases linearly with increasing .
It decreases logarithmically with increasing .
It decreases inversely with increasing .
It remains constant regardless of .
What unit is used to measure electric potential?
Coulomb (C)
Volt (V)
Ampere (A)
Ohm (Ω)
What is the self-energy of a non-conducting solid sphere of radius with volume charge density distributed uniformly throughout its volume using energy density ?
For two parallel non-conducting sheets each uniformly charged but with opposite sign charges (+σ and −σ respectively), what would be true about any external effects outside these sheets if they were brought infinitely close together without touching?
They would have no effect on each other due to opposite signs
They would cancel each other creating no external fields
External effects would oscillate
They would double their combined external effects
In comparison to an isolated parallel plate capacitor with vacuum between its plates, how does inserting a dielectric material with permittivity ε affect its capacitive storage of electrical potential energy?
Has no effect on electrical potential energy storage whatsoever.
Increases it for constant charge on plates.
Decreases it for constant voltage across plates.
Increases it for constant voltage across plates.
What does a positive test charge experience when placed in an area with zero electric field strength?
A constant force toward high intensity
An attractive magnetic force
A force directly proportional to its load
No force

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What happens to the electric potential difference across a capacitor when the separation between its plates is doubled while keeping the charge constant?
It quadruples
It halves
It remains unchanged
It doubles
A nonconducting sphere carries a uniform volume charge density; what happens to the potential difference between its surface and a point halfway to its center as you move that interior point closer to the sphere's center?
It remains constant.
It increases.
It decreases.
It fluctuates periodically with distance from the center.
When comparing an infinite sheet of positive charge with a positively charged ring, both producing an electric field in space above them, for which configuration does this field decay more rapidly with increasing distance from it?
Decay rates are identical for both configurations
Infinite sheet of positive charge
Positively charged ring
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