Objective Questions
All objective questions for PHY 102
Questions (1819)
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| 101 |
In a DC generator, the output voltage is not constant but:
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Electromagnetic Induction | View |
| 102 |
Why do commercial motors use many coils of wire around the armature?
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Electromagnetic Induction | View |
| 103 |
A magnetic field of 0.2 T passes through a loop of area 0.05 m² at an angle of …
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Electromagnetic Induction | View |
| 104 |
A wire of length 0.4 m moves at 6 m/s at 90° to a 0.3-T field. What is the indu…
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Electromagnetic Induction | View |
| 105 |
What is the induced emf in a 0.5-m wire moving at 10 m/s at 30° to a 0.4-T fiel…
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Electromagnetic Induction | View |
| 106 |
A 100-turn coil with area 0.01 m² rotates in a 0.2-T field at 50 rad/s. What is…
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Electromagnetic Induction | View |
| 107 |
If a coil of 200 turns has a flux change of 0.02 Wb in 0.05 s, what is the indu…
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Electromagnetic Induction | View |
| 108 |
What is a Gaussian surface?
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Gauss's Law and Electrostatic Fields | View |
| 109 |
What is the electric field inside a hollow charged conducting sphere?
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Gauss's Law and Electrostatic Fields | View |
| 110 |
For a hollow charged sphere, what is the electric field outside the sphere?
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Gauss's Law and Electrostatic Fields | View |
| 111 |
Which of the following statements is true about a hollow conducting sphere in e…
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Gauss's Law and Electrostatic Fields | View |
| 112 |
What is the electric field at the center of a uniformly charged solid non-condu…
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Gauss's Law and Electrostatic Fields | View |
| 113 |
What is the electric field just outside a charged conducting sphere (radius a, …
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Gauss's Law and Electrostatic Fields | View |
| 114 |
What is the electric field inside a charged conducting sphere (solid or hollow)?
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Gauss's Law and Electrostatic Fields | View |
| 115 |
For a charged conducting plane of infinite extent with surface charge density σ…
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Gauss's Law and Electrostatic Fields | View |
| 116 |
For a charged non-conducting sheet (insulating sheet) with uniform surface char…
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Gauss's Law and Electrostatic Fields | View |
| 117 |
What is the electric field inside a parallel plate capacitor (between the plate…
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Gauss's Law and Electrostatic Fields | View |
| 118 |
What is the capacitance of a parallel plate capacitor with plate area A and sep…
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Gauss's Law and Electrostatic Fields | View |
| 119 |
If the plate area of a parallel plate capacitor is doubled, what happens to the…
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Gauss's Law and Electrostatic Fields | View |
| 120 |
If the plate separation of a parallel plate capacitor is doubled, what happens …
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Gauss's Law and Electrostatic Fields | View |
| 121 |
What is the relationship between electric field E and electric potential V in o…
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Gauss's Law and Electrostatic Fields | View |
| 122 |
For a uniform electric field E between parallel plates separated by distance d,…
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Gauss's Law and Electrostatic Fields | View |
| 123 |
A charged particle of mass m and charge q enters a uniform electric field E per…
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Gauss's Law and Electrostatic Fields | View |
| 124 |
A positive charge of 5 μC, mass 2×10⁻⁹ kg, is placed in a uniform electric fiel…
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Gauss's Law and Electrostatic Fields | View |
| 125 |
A charge is launched horizontally into a uniform vertical electric field. The p…
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Gauss's Law and Electrostatic Fields | View |
| 126 |
What is the electric field in the region between two large parallel conducting …
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Gauss's Law and Electrostatic Fields | View |
| 127 |
What is the work done in moving a charge q from point A to point B in an electr…
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Gauss's Law and Electrostatic Fields | View |
| 128 |
What is an equipotential surface?
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Gauss's Law and Electrostatic Fields | View |
| 129 |
What is the direction of the electric field relative to an equipotential surfac…
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Gauss's Law and Electrostatic Fields | View |
| 130 |
For a point charge, what is the shape of the equipotential surfaces?
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Gauss's Law and Electrostatic Fields | View |
| 131 |
What is the electric flux through a closed surface that encloses no net charge?
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Gauss's Law and Electrostatic Fields | View |
| 132 |
What is the SI unit of electric flux?
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Gauss's Law and Electrostatic Fields | View |
| 133 |
What is the electric field at a distance r from an infinitely long line charge …
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Gauss's Law and Electrostatic Fields | View |
| 134 |
What is the electric field due to an infinite plane of charge with surface char…
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Gauss's Law and Electrostatic Fields | View |
| 135 |
For a uniformly charged solid sphere of radius R and total charge Q, what is th…
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Gauss's Law and Electrostatic Fields | View |
| 136 |
For a uniformly charged solid sphere of radius R and total charge Q, what is th…
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Gauss's Law and Electrostatic Fields | View |
| 137 |
What is the electric field just outside a charged conductor?
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Gauss's Law and Electrostatic Fields | View |
| 138 |
What is the electric field inside a conducting material in electrostatic equili…
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Gauss's Law and Electrostatic Fields | View |
| 139 |
If a positive charge is placed at the center of a hollow conducting sphere, wha…
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Gauss's Law and Electrostatic Fields | View |
| 140 |
What is the potential inside a hollow charged conducting sphere?
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Gauss's Law and Electrostatic Fields | View |
| 141 |
What is a capacitor?
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Capacitors and Capacitance | View |
| 142 |
What is the SI unit of capacitance?
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Capacitors and Capacitance | View |
| 143 |
Which of the following factors does NOT affect the capacitance of a parallel pl…
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Capacitors and Capacitance | View |
| 144 |
What is the formula for the capacitance of a parallel plate capacitor with plat…
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Capacitors and Capacitance | View |
| 145 |
What is the permittivity of free space (ε₀)?
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Capacitors and Capacitance | View |
| 146 |
A parallel plate capacitor has plates of area 0.05 m² separated by 0.001 m with…
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Capacitors and Capacitance | View |
| 147 |
If the area of the plates of a parallel plate capacitor is doubled, what happen…
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Capacitors and Capacitance | View |
| 148 |
If the distance between the plates of a parallel plate capacitor is doubled, wh…
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Capacitors and Capacitance | View |
| 149 |
What is the dielectric constant (K) of a material?
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Capacitors and Capacitance | View |
| 150 |
A parallel plate capacitor with air has capacitance 10 pF. When filled with a d…
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Capacitors and Capacitance | View |
| 151 |
What is the formula for the capacitance of a cylindrical capacitor?
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Capacitors and Capacitance | View |
| 152 |
Three capacitors C₁, C₂, C₃ are connected in series. What is the equivalent cap…
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Capacitors and Capacitance | View |
| 153 |
Three capacitors C₁, C₂, C₃ are connected in parallel. What is the equivalent c…
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Capacitors and Capacitance | View |
| 154 |
A 1 μF and a 2 μF capacitor are connected in series. What is their equivalent c…
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Capacitors and Capacitance | View |
| 155 |
A 1 μF and a 2 μF capacitor are connected in parallel. What is their equivalent…
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Capacitors and Capacitance | View |
| 156 |
For capacitors in series, which statement is true?
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Capacitors and Capacitance | View |
| 157 |
For capacitors in parallel, which statement is true?
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Capacitors and Capacitance | View |
| 158 |
What is the energy stored in a capacitor?
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Capacitors and Capacitance | View |
| 159 |
What is the time constant τ of an RC circuit?
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Capacitors and Capacitance | View |
| 160 |
In an RC charging circuit, after one time constant (t = RC), the capacitor volt…
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Capacitors and Capacitance | View |
| 161 |
In an RC discharging circuit, after one time constant (t = RC), the capacitor v…
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Capacitors and Capacitance | View |
| 162 |
What are the units of the time constant RC?
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Capacitors and Capacitance | View |
| 163 |
A capacitor of 100 μF is charged through a 10 kΩ resistor. What is the time con…
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Capacitors and Capacitance | View |
| 164 |
What is the energy density (energy per unit volume) stored in the electric fiel…
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Capacitors and Capacitance | View |
| 165 |
In a series RC circuit with a battery, what happens to the current as the capac…
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Capacitors and Capacitance | View |
| 166 |
What is the voltage across a capacitor immediately after the switch is closed i…
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Capacitors and Capacitance | View |
| 167 |
What is the voltage across a capacitor after a long time (in steady state) in a…
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Capacitors and Capacitance | View |
| 168 |
What is the work required to carry an electron (q = -1.6×10⁻¹⁹ C) from the posi…
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Capacitors and Capacitance | View |
| 169 |
An electron starts from rest and falls through a potential rise of 80 V. What i…
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Capacitors and Capacitance | View |
| 170 |
If the dielectric constant of a material is 5, how does the capacitance compare…
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Capacitors and Capacitance | View |
| 171 |
What is the induced charge density on the surface of a dielectric inserted betw…
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Capacitors and Capacitance | View |
| 172 |
According to the principles of electrostatics, what happens when two charged pl…
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Electrostatics: Electric Charge and Coulomb's Law | View |
| 173 |
What is the fundamental rule regarding the conservation of electric charge in a…
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Electrostatics: Electric Charge and Coulomb's Law | View |
| 174 |
Which of the following best describes the distribution of charge within a neutr…
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Electrostatics: Electric Charge and Coulomb's Law | View |
| 175 |
A water molecule is described as a 'polar molecule.' What does this mean in ter…
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Electrostatics: Electric Charge and Coulomb's Law | View |
| 176 |
Which category of materials allows electric charge to flow freely through them?
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Electrostatics: Electric Charge and Coulomb's Law | View |
| 177 |
If a neutral metal rod is charged by 'conduction,' what must occur?
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Electrostatics: Electric Charge and Coulomb's Law | View |
| 178 |
What is the result of 'charge separation' in a neutral metal rod when a positiv…
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Electrostatics: Electric Charge and Coulomb's Law | View |
| 179 |
What is the primary function of an electroscope in a laboratory setting?
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Electrostatics: Electric Charge and Coulomb's Law | View |
| 180 |
According to Coulomb's Law, the electric force between two point charges is inv…
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Electrostatics: Electric Charge and Coulomb's Law | View |
| 181 |
What is the value of the proportionality constant 'k' in Coulomb's Law?
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Electrostatics: Electric Charge and Coulomb's Law | View |
| 182 |
If a charge is measured as 1 μC (microcoulomb), how many coulombs is it equal t…
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Electrostatics: Electric Charge and Coulomb's Law | View |
| 183 |
The charge on a single electron is approximately 1.602 x 10^-19 C. What does th…
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Electrostatics: Electric Charge and Coulomb's Law | View |
| 184 |
In the vector form of Coulomb's Law, the force is directed along what path?
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Electrostatics: Electric Charge and Coulomb's Law | View |
| 185 |
Two charges, Q1 = 50 μC and Q2 = 1 μC, are separated by a distance. How does th…
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Electrostatics: Electric Charge and Coulomb's Law | View |
| 186 |
How is the electric field (E) defined at a specific point in space?
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Electrostatics: Electric Charge and Coulomb's Law | View |
| 187 |
Which of the following describes the electric field generated by a single posit…
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Electrostatics: Electric Charge and Coulomb's Law | View |
| 188 |
In a photocopy machine, how is the dry toner (ink) attracted to the drum?
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Electrostatics: Electric Charge and Coulomb's Law | View |
| 189 |
If the electric field at a point is 3.0 x 10^5 N/C directed to the right, what …
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Electrostatics: Electric Charge and Coulomb's Law | View |
| 190 |
What happens to the electric field strength at a point if the distance from a p…
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Electrostatics: Electric Charge and Coulomb's Law | View |
| 191 |
How should a continuous distribution of charge be treated when calculating the …
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Electrostatics: Electric Charge and Coulomb's Law | View |
| 192 |
What is the electric field formula for an infinite plane of charge with surface…
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Electrostatics: Electric Charge and Coulomb's Law | View |
| 193 |
Between two closely spaced, oppositely charged parallel plates, the electric fi…
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Electrostatics: Electric Charge and Coulomb's Law | View |
| 194 |
A proton and an electron are released from rest 1 meter apart. Where would they…
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Electrostatics: Electric Charge and Coulomb's Law | View |
| 195 |
The number of electric field lines starting or ending on a charge is proportion…
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Electrostatics: Electric Charge and Coulomb's Law | View |
| 196 |
What is an electric dipole?
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Electrostatics: Electric Charge and Coulomb's Law | View |
| 197 |
What is the static electric field inside a good conductor in equilibrium?
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Electrostatics: Electric Charge and Coulomb's Law | View |
| 198 |
Where does the net charge on a conductor reside when it is in electrostatic equ…
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Electrostatics: Electric Charge and Coulomb's Law | View |
| 199 |
The electric field at the surface of a conductor must be directed in what way?
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Electrostatics: Electric Charge and Coulomb's Law | View |
| 200 |
A neutral hollow metal box can protect its interior from external electric fiel…
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Electrostatics: Electric Charge and Coulomb's Law | View |