MCQ Bank
Electric flux is maximum when surface area vector is _______ to field lines.
- A) Parallel
- B) Antiparallel
- C) 45o
- D) Perpendicular
What is the charge density for a volume charge distribution?
- A) dq = ρdV
- B) dq = σdV
- C) dq = dA
- D) dq = λds
What are the units of current density in the International System of Units (SI)?
- A) Amperes per meter (A/m)
- B) Amperes (A)
- C) Amperes per meter squared (A/m2)
- D) Amperes per meter cubed (A/m3)
Typical values for the magnitude of the electric field inside the wire:
- A) 10-5 N/C
- B) 10 -2 N/C
- C) 10-4N/C
- D) 10 -3N/C
If the magnetic field lines are parallel to the surface, what is the value of the magnetic flux?
- A) Magnetic flux is zero.
- B) Magnetic flux is constant.
- C) Magnetic flux is maximized.
- D) Magnetic flux is negative.
What happens to the total capacitance when capacitors are connected in series?
- A) It becomes infinite
- B) It increases
- C) It remains the same
- D) It decreases
In a transformer, the number of turns in the primary and secondary coil is 40 and 120, respectively. If the current in the primary coil is 6 A, the current in the secondary coil is:
- A) 0.2 A
- B) 2 A
- C) 1.8 A
- D) 18 A
What does the electric potential due to a dipole depend on?
- A) Angle between the dipole moment and the field point
- B) Distance from the center of the dipole
- C) Magnitude of charges in the dipole
- D) Both distance and angle
A generator supplies 100V to the primary coil of a transformer. The primary has 50 turns and the secondary has 500 turns. The secondary voltage is:
- A) 1000V
- B) 100V
- C) 250V
- D) 500V
Electromagnetic waves do not transport:
- A) Charge
- B) Energy
- C) Information
- D) Momentum
Electric field inside a conductor is
- A) Maximum
- B) q / εo
- C) Infinite
- D) Zero
What is a Gaussian surface in the context of Gauss's Law?
- A) A surface with constant electric field
- B) A surface with nonzero electric flux
- C) Any closed surface in space
- D) An imaginary surface used to apply Gauss's Law
Along the axial line of an electric dipole, how does the electric field vary with distance "r" from the center of the dipole?
- A) E ∝ r
- B) E ∝ 1/r²
- C) E ∝ 1/r³
- D) E ∝ 1/r
In a parallel circuit with resistors R1 and R2, if R1 is much greater than R2, how does the voltage across R2 compare to the voltage across R1?
- A) Voltage across R1 is much greater
- B) Voltage across R2 is much greater
- C) Voltage across both resistors is the same
- D) Voltages can not be determined
Which of the following is equivalent to one coulomb?
- A) one volt per ampere
- B) One volt second
- C) One volt ampere
- D) One ampere second
A particle carrying a charge of 2e falls through potential difference of 3V. the energy acquired by it will be:
- A) 3 eV
- B) 1.5 eV
- C) 6 eV
- D) 0.66 eV
Which of the following types of electromagnetic radiation travels at the greatest speed in vacuum?
- A) All of these travel at the same speed
- B) Radio waves
- C) Gamma rays
- D) X rays
A step-down transformer is used to:
- A) increase the voltage
- B) decrease the voltage
- C) decrease the power
- D) increase the power
Kirchhoff’s first rule is the manifestation of the law of conservation of:
- A) Charge
- B) Energy
- C) Momentum
- D) Mass
As per Coulomb's law, the force of attraction or repulsion between two point charges directly proportional to the
- A) square of the distance between them
- B) sum of the magnitude of charges
- C) product of the magnitude of charges
- D) cube of the distance