Electric Charges and Fields

29 topics, ranked by how often each is asked.

  • 42 questions
  • 29 papers
  • 2.38% of Physics

Topics

The squares are the last ten exam years: filled means it was asked that year.

Most asked first

29 topics · 42 questions
  1. 1Gauss's law21%9 questionsPractise Gauss's law
  2. 2Coulomb's Law9.5%4 questionsPractise Coulomb's Law
  3. 3Electric flux4.8%2 questionsPractise Electric flux
  4. 4Dipole in a Uniform Electric Field4.8%2 questionsPractise Dipole in a Uniform Electric Field
  5. 5Coulomb's Law and Charge Sharing2.4%1 questionPractise Coulomb's Law and Charge Sharing
  6. 6Dipole in a Uniform External Field2.4%1 questionPractise Dipole in a Uniform External Field
  7. 7Electric Dipole in a Uniform Electric Field2.4%1 questionPractise Electric Dipole in a Uniform Electric Field
  8. 8Electric Flux and Gauss's Law2.4%1 questionPractise Electric Flux and Gauss's Law
  9. 9Electric Dipole – Field at Large Distance2.4%1 questionPractise Electric Dipole – Field at Large Distance
  10. 10Electric Dipole in a Non-uniform Electric Field2.4%1 questionPractise Electric Dipole in a Non-uniform Electric Field
  11. 11Gauss's Law – Field due to a Charged Conducting Sphere2.4%1 questionPractise Gauss's Law – Field due to a Charged Conducting Sphere
  12. 12Gauss's Law – Field of a Uniformly Charged Spherical Shell2.4%1 questionPractise Gauss's Law – Field of a Uniformly Charged Spherical Shell
  13. 13Electric Field due to an Infinite Line Charge2.4%1 questionPractise Electric Field due to an Infinite Line Charge
  14. 14Surface charge density2.4%1 questionPractise Surface charge density
  15. 15Electric field due to a dipole on the equatorial line2.4%1 questionPractise Electric field due to a dipole on the equatorial line
  16. 16Coulomb's law - force and resulting acceleration2.4%1 questionPractise Coulomb's law - force and resulting acceleration
  17. 17Gauss's law - flux through one face of a cube2.4%1 questionPractise Gauss's law - flux through one face of a cube
  18. 18Coulomb's law vs gravitational force2.4%1 questionPractise Coulomb's law vs gravitational force
  19. 19Conductors - electrostatic shielding2.4%1 questionPractise Conductors - electrostatic shielding
  20. 20Motion of a charged particle in a uniform electric field2.4%1 questionPractise Motion of a charged particle in a uniform electric field
  21. 21Coulomb's law compared with gravitation2.4%1 questionPractise Coulomb's law compared with gravitation
  22. 22Equilibrium of suspended charged spheres2.4%1 questionPractise Equilibrium of suspended charged spheres
  23. 23Torque on an electric dipole2.4%1 questionPractise Torque on an electric dipole
  24. 24Electric dipole in a uniform field2.4%1 questionPractise Electric dipole in a uniform field
  25. 25Applications of Gauss's law2.4%1 questionPractise Applications of Gauss's law
  26. 26Superposition of Electric Fields2.4%1 questionPractise Superposition of Electric Fields
  27. 27Electric Dipole2.4%1 questionPractise Electric Dipole
  28. 28Coulomb's Law in Vector Form2.4%1 questionPractise Coulomb's Law in Vector Form
  29. 29Electric Field of a Continuous Charge Distribution2.4%1 questionPractise Electric Field of a Continuous Charge Distribution

Questions per paper

Asked in 14 of the last 16 papers (2017–2026).

  1. 2026: not asked
  2. 2026 Re-NEET: 1 question
  3. 2025: 2 questions
  4. 2024: not asked
  5. 2024 Re-NEET: 1 question
  6. 2023: 2 questions
  7. 2023 Manipur: 2 questions
  8. 2022: 1 question
  9. 2022 Phase 2: 1 question
  10. 2021: 1 question
  11. 2020: 1 question
  12. 2020 Phase-2: 2 questions
  13. 2019: 3 questions
  14. 2019 Odisha: 1 question
  15. 2018: 1 question
  16. 2017: 1 question

Concepts tested

  • Gauss's law 2
  • Torque on a dipole 2
  • Attractive Coulomb force in vector form
  • Charge at corner of cube
  • Charge at the corner of a cube
  • charge-motion-electric-field
  • Conduction and Coulomb's Force
  • Conductors - electrostatic shielding
  • Coulomb's law - force and resulting acceleration
  • Coulomb's law vs gravitational force
  • coulomb-vs-gravity-charge-difference
  • dipole field falls as 1/R³
  • dipole-torque-charge
  • Electric Dipole Potential Energy
  • Electric field due to a dipole on the equatorial line
  • Electric flux
  • Equilibrium of charged pendulums
  • Field at centre of charged arc