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प्रश्न
What is meant by an equipotential surface?
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उत्तर
The surface of locus of all points at the same potential.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Define an equipotential surface.
A regular hexagon of side 10 cm has a charge 5 µC at each of its vertices. Calculate the potential at the centre of the hexagon.
Two charges 2 μC and −2 µC are placed at points A and B 6 cm apart.
- Identify an equipotential surface of the system.
- What is the direction of the electric field at every point on this surface?
A man fixes outside his house one evening a two metre high insulating slab carrying on its top a large aluminium sheet of area 1 m2. Will he get an electric shock if he touches the metal sheet next morning?
Write two important characteristics of equipotential surfaces.
Assertion: Electric field is discontinuous across the surface of a spherical charged shell.
Reason: Electric potential is continuous across the surface of a spherical charged shell.
Equipotentials at a great distance from a collection of charges whose total sum is not zero are approximately.
The diagrams below show regions of equipotentials.
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A positive charge is moved from A to B in each diagram.
Consider a uniform electric field in the ẑ direction. The potential is a constant ______.
- in all space.
- for any x for a given z.
- for any y for a given z.
- on the x-y plane for a given z.
Find the equation of the equipotentials for an infinite cylinder of radius r0, carrying charge of linear density λ.
