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If the electrostatic potential were Igiven by  (x2 + y2 + z2), where is constant, then the charge density giving rise to the above potential would be

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Consider an infinitely long straight cylindrical conductor of radius R with its axis along the Z-direction, which carries a current of 1A uniformly distributed over its cross-section. Which of the following statements is correct?
(where, r is the radial distance from the axis of the cylinder)

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A circular arc QTS is kept in an external magnetic field as shown in figure. The arc carries a current . The magnetic field is directed normal and into the page. The force acting on the arc is
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The trace of a 3 × 3 matrix is 2. Two of its eigen values are 1 and 2. The third eigen value is

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An infinite conducting sheet in the X-Y-plane carries a surface current density K along the Y-axis. The magnetic field for z > 0 is

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A plane electromagnetic wave of frequency ω is incident normally on an air-dielectric interface. The dielectric is linear, isotropic, non-magnetic and its refractive index is n. The reflectance (R) and transmittance (T) from the interface are

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A conducting sphere of radius R has charge +Q on its surface. If the charge on the sphere is doubled and its radius is halved, the energy associated with the electric field will

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Four charges are placed at the four corners of a square of side a as shown in the figure. The electric dipole moment of this configuration is
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Far away from any of the resonance frequencies of a medium, the real part of the dielectric permittivity is

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A circular disc of radius a on the XY-plane has a surface charge density   The electric dipole moment of this charge distribution is

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An electrostatic field exists in a given region R. Choose the wrong statement.

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A long cylindrical kept along Z-axis carries a current density   where is a constant and r is the radial distance from the axis of the cylinder. The magnetic induction inside the conductor at a distance d from the axis of the cylinder is

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A uniform surface current is flowing in the positive Y-direction over an infinite sheet lying in X-Y plane. The direction of the magnetic field is

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The electric field  for a circularly polarized electromagnetic wave propagating along the positive Z-direction is

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The stateof polarization of light with the electric field vector         is

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A particle with an initial velocity  enters a region with an electric field  and a magnetic field  The trajectory of the particle will

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A thin conducting wire is bent into a circular loop of radius r and placed in a time dependent magnetic field of magnetic induction.

such that, the plane of the loop is perpendicular to  Then the induced emf in the loop is

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Which one of the following Maxwell's equations implies the absence of magnetic monopoles?

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An infinitely long closely wound solenoid carries a sinusoidally varying current. The induced electric field is

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A magnetic dipole of dipole moment is placed in a non-uniform magnetic field  If the position vector of the dipole is  the torque acting on the dipole about the origin is

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