PHYS 1064

PHYSICS II

TUTORIAL
QUESTIONS
CHAPTER 1: ELECTROSTATICS

1. Define the following terms

a. Insulator

b. Conductor

c. Electrostatics

d. Electric potential.

e. Electric field strength

f. Electrical Potential

2. State Coulomb’s Law.

3. Explain three properties of charge.

4. What is polarization process?

5. Discuss three methods of charging.

6. A helium nucleus has charge +2e and a neon nucleus +10e, with what force
do they repel each other when separated by 3 x 10-9 meters?

[e = 1.60 x 10-19 C]

7. If two equal charges, each of 1 coulomb, were separated in air by a

8. Find the electric field strength at 2.5 m from the 5 mC charge.

9. What is the electric potential at a point of 6 cm from a point charge of -2.5

10. What is the work done to bring a -7µC from infinity to a point 6 cm from a
point charge of -2.5 mC?

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CHAPTER 2: CAPACITORS AND DIELECTRICS

1. Define the following terms

a. Capacitor

b. Capacitance

c. Dielectric

2. Explain charging a capacitor through a resistor.

3. Explain discharging a capacitor through resistor.

4. You have two capacitors of 0.40 µF and 0.60 µF.

a. What is the equivalent capacitance if you add them in series?

b. What is the equivalent capacitance if you add them in parallel?

5. Three capacitors: 0.20 µF, 0.08 µF and 0.40 µF are connected in series and

attached to a 12 V battery.

a. What is the total equivalent capacitance of this arrangement?

b. What charge accumulates on each capacitor?

6. An arrangement of capacitors is given as below, answer the following

questions. You will probably not answer these questions in the exact order

they are asked.

a. What is the equivalent capacitance of this arrangement?

b. What is voltage across each capacitor?

c. What is the charge on each capacitor?

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7. A camera flash stores energy in a 200 µF capacitor at a voltage of 250 V. in

the capacitor…

a. How much charge can be stored?

b. What is the electrical energy stored?

8. A parallel plate capacitor has the plates with dimension 25 cm x 3 cm and is

separated by 0.80 mm vacuum gap. If the potential difference across the

capacitor is 24 V. calculate

a. The capacitance of the capacitor.

b. What is the charge of each plate?

9. The parallel plates of the capacitor are 5 mm apart and 2 m2 in area. If a

dielectric material with dielectric constant 1.50 is inserted between the plates

and a potential difference of 10 kV is applied across the capacitor, calculate

a. The capacitance of the capacitor

b. Charge stored in capacitor

c. The electric field in the space between the plates

10. A parallel plate capacitor consists of two identical plates. One of the plates

has an area of 100 cm2. The plates are separated by a 20 mm air gap and it

is connected to 40 V power supply.

a. Calculate the capacitance of the capacitor.

b. Calculate the charge stored in the capacitor.

c. Then a liquid with relative permittivity of 2.60 is poured between the

plates. How much additional charge will flow into the capacitor from the

40 V source?

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CHAPTER 3: ELECTRIC CURRENT AND DIRECT CURRENT
CIRCUITS

1. Define the following term

a. Resistor

b. Resistivity

c. Resistance

d. Direct current

2. State ohm’s law

3. Describe the microscopic model of current in metal.

4. Explain factors that influence resistance of a metal.

5. Sketch a circuit diagram consist of three resistors R1, R2 and R3 which are

connected in series and this combination attached to the terminals of

a 125 V battery.

6. An emf source of 6.0V is connected to a purely resistive lamp and a current

of 2.0 amperes flows. All the wires are resistance-free. What is the resistance

of the lamp?

7. A length of copper wire (α = 0.004041 at 20o C) has a resistance of 5 ohms at

20 degrees Celsius. Calculate its resistance if the temperature were to

increase to 50 degrees Celsius.

8. Now, take that calculated resistance, and that new temperature of 50o C, and

calculate what the resistance of the wire should go to if it cools back down to 20o

C.

9. Determine the following quantities for each of the two circuits shown below…

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i. the equivalent resistance

ii. the total current from the power supply

iii. the current through each resistor

iv. the voltage drop across each resistor

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CHAPTER 4: MAGNETIC FIELDS

1. Define the following term

a. Magnetic force

b. Magnetic field

2. State Ampere’s Law.

3. List three properties of magnet.

4. Describe the role of right hand rule.

5. Proton moves with a speed of 1.0 x 105 ms-1 through the Earth’s magnetic

field. When the proton moves eastward, it experiences a maximum magnetic

force of 8.8 x 10-19 N. What is the magnetic strength of the Earth’s magnetic

field at the location?

6. A proton moves along the x-axis with velocity of 4.0 x 106 ms-1. It enters region

where there is a magnetic field of 3.0 T directed at an angle of 50 with the

axis and lying x-y plane. Calculate the initial force and acceleration

experience by the proton.

7. A student is provided with a 3.0 m long wire with a current of 0.15 A flowing

through it. What is the strength of the magnetic field at the centre of the wire

if the wire is bent into a circular coil of one turn?

8. A straight wire with a length of 0.65 m and mass of 75 g is placed in a uniform

magnetic field of 1.62 T. if the current in the wire is perpendicular to the

magnetic field; calculate the current required to balance the wire. [g=9.81

ms-2]

9. A He2+ ion moves at right angles to a magnetic field of 0.5 T with a velocity of

2 x 105 ms-1. Find the magnetic force on the ion. [e= 1.6 x 10-19 C]

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10. An electron with an energy of 5.2 x 10-17 J moves at right angles to magnetic

field of 0.42 T. Calculate:

a. The velocity of the electron

b. The force on the electron [mass of electron=9.11 x 10-31 kg, e= 1.6 x 10-19 C]

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CHAPTER 5: ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION

1. Define the following term:

a. Magnetic induction

b. Magnetic flux

2. State:

a. Faraday’s Law

b. Lenz’s Law

3. Explain how to induce current in a circuit.

4. Explain factors that could influence magnetic flux.

5. List four applications of Faraday’s law in real life.

6. A circular coil of 100 turns and radius of 10 cm is placed in a uniform

magnetic field of magnitude 3 T. the normal to the coil is paralleto the

direction of magnetic field. if the magnetic field strength is reduced to 2.30 T

in 15 ms, determine:

a. The change in magnetic flux in the coil.

b. The magnitude of the induced emf in the coil.

7. The flexible circular loop of radius 15 cm lies in a magnetic field of 450 mT. It is

oriented so that its plane makes an angle of 25° to the magnetic field lines. If

the radius of the loop changes to 20 cm in 0.6 s, find the magnitude of the

induced emf in the loop.

8. In an area where the downward component of the earth’s magnetic field is

0.60 x 10-4 T, an airplane with a wingspan of 45 m is flying parallel to the

earth’s surface. If the induce emf between the tips of the wings is 1.7 V,

calculate the speed, v at which the airplane has to fly.

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9. An air plane is flying in a horizontal path in the vertical component of the

earth’s magnetic flux density of magnitude 1 x 10-5 T. The wingspan of the air

craft is 26 m and it is flying at 100ms-1. Calculate the induced emf in the wings

if it’s a metal air plane.

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CHAPTER 6: ALTERNATING CURRENT

1. Define the following term:

b. Reactance

c. Impedance

2. Distinguish direct current and alternating current

3. Write the general sine wave equation for alternating current.

4. The A. C voltage across a resistor of resistance 100 Ω is given by:

𝑉 = 6 sin 𝑠𝑖𝑛 100π𝑡

a. What is the frequency of the a.c voltage?

b. At time t=2.7 ms, calculate the voltage across the resistor and the current

flowing through the resistor.

5. The A. C voltage across the a resistor of resistance 1 kΩ is given by

𝑉 = 12 sin 𝑠𝑖𝑛 100π𝑡

a. Calculate the maximum current flowing through the resistor

b. Write an expression for the A.C current.

6. The current of an A.C source is given by

𝐼 = 3 sin 𝑠𝑖𝑛 100π𝑡

What is the value of Irms for this source?

7. A capacitor of capacitance 100 µF is connected to a 6 V, 50 Hz A.C supply.

Calculate:

a. The reactance of the capacitor

b. The current flowing through the capacitor

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8. A capacitor of 1500 µF is connected to 2.5V, 0.45 A lamp and 60 Hz supply in

series. Calculate

a. the capacitor reactance, Xc

b. the resistance of the lamp, R

c. the impedance, Z.

9. An inductor of 3.0 H has a resistance of 70 Ω. It is connected in series with a

resistor of 450 Ω and an alternating voltage supply of 240 V and frequency of

60Hz. Calculate

a. the reactance of the inductor, XL

b. the total resistance, R

c. the impedance, Z

10. A 50 Ω resistor, a 100 mH inductor and 5 µF capacitor are connected in series

to an A.C source. A voltmeter is connected across the resistor. If the source

supplied a 90 V peak voltage at a frequency of 500 Hz, calculate:

a. Peak current flow in the circuit

b. Voltage reading on the voltmeter

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CHAPTER 7: GEOMETRICAL OPTICS

1. State law of reflection and Snell’s law.

2. Sketch a ray diagram for:

a. Reflection on a plane mirror.

b. Refraction through a transparent medium.

3. Describe virtual image and real image and provide one example for each.

4. Explain the working principle of a periscope.

5. State one application for the following lens and mirror:

a. Concave mirror

b. Convex mirror

c. Concave lens

d. Convex lens

6. An object 3 cm high is placed 20 cm to the left of (a) a convex and (b) a

concave spherical mirror, each of focal length 10 cm. Determine the position

and nature of the image for each mirror.

7. An upright image twice the size of an object is formed by a spherical mirror. If

the distance between the image and the object is 30 cm, find the focal

length of the mirror and state what type of spherical mirror it is.

8. In a handheld optical instrument used under water, light is incident from

water onto the plane surface of flint glass at an angle of incidence of 45°.

What is the angle of refraction in the flint glass?

9. An object is placed 30 cm to the left of a diverging lens of a focal length 20

cm. what is the location of the image formed?

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10. A glass lens has a convex surface of radious 20 cm and a concave surface of

10 cm. if the refractive index of a glass is 1.5, determine the focal length of

this lens.

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CHAPTER 8: PHYSICAL OPTICS

1. Define the following term:

a. Monochromatic

b. Coherent

c. Wavefront

2. State Huygen’s principle.

3. Describe two types of interference.

4. A beam of light of wavelength 589 nm is directed at the double slit to

produce an interference pattern on a screen placed 120 cm from the slits.

The distance between bright fringes is 4.8 mm. calculate the separation

between the slits.

5. A beam of monochromatic light incident normally on a single slit of width 0.2

mm. the third dark fringe is located 1.4 cm from the central bright fringe on a

screen 120 cm from the slit. Calculate the wavelength of the light used.

6. A beam of monochromatic light of wavelength 589 nm is incident on a

diffraction grating. The second order maximum is formed at an angle of 15o

from the central maximum. Calculate the number of lines per mm on the

diffraction grating.

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CHAPTER 9 QUANTIZATION OF LIGHT

1. Define the following term:

a. Photon

b. Blackbody

c. Quanta

d. Work function

e. Threshold frequency

2. Explain electromagnetic wave of energy based on classical theory and

Planck’s quantum theory.

3. Explain 3 properties of electromagnetic wave of light.

4. Describe photoelectric effect with a sketch.

5. Discuss Einstein’s postulates regarding light quanta.

6. Calculate the energy of a photon of red light of wavelength 7.30 x 10-7 m.

give your answer in both joule and electronvolt (EV).

7. Calculate the energy of a quantum for a radiation with a frequency of 4.5 x

1014 Hz.

8. In a photoelectric effect experiment, a light with a wavelength of 400 nm

incident on a metal surface which has a work function of 2.0 eV. Calculate

a. Threshold frequency

b. Stopping potential

9. When a monochromatic light of wavelength 600 nm is incident on a metal

surface, photoelectrons are emitted with a velocity of 5.20 x 105 ms-1.

Calculate

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a. Work function of metal

b. Threshold frequency for this surface

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CHAPTER 10: WAVE PROPERTIES OF LIGHT

1. Explain:

a. Wave-particle duality

b. De Broglie relation

2. Provide evidence that light behave like wave and particle.

3. The wavelength of photon is 600 nm. Calculate

a. Energy

b. Momentum

c. Mass of the photon.

4. A beam of visible light of wavelength 589 nm is incident normally on a

surface. Calculate the momentum of the visible light.

5. An athlete of mass 65 kg takes 12 s to finish a 100 m race in school sports

event. What is the momentum of the athlete?

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CHAPTER 11: NUCLEUS

1. Define the following term:

a. Proton number

b. Atomic number

c. Neutron number

d. Mass defect

e. Binding energy

f. Isotopes

2. Calculate the binding energy of He nucleus from the data below.

Mass of helium atom: 4.002603 u

Mass of proton: 1.007276 u

Mass of neutron: 1.008665 u

Mass of electron: 5.486 x 10-4 u

3. If the mass of the Cu atom is 62.9296 u, H atom is 1.00783 u and neutron

1.00867 u, calculate the binding energy of the Cu nucleus.

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CHAPTER 12: NUCLEAR REACTION

1. Describe nuclear fusion and fission

2. Describe nuclear decay: alpha, beta and gamma decay.

3. Explain chain reaction.

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