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A cylindrical rod of length L and radius r, made of an inhomogeneous dielectric, is placed with its axis along the Z-direction with one end at the origin as shown below.
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If the rod carries a polarization    the volume bound charge inside the dielectric is

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The figure shows a constant current source charging a capacitor that is initially uncharged.
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If the switch is closed at t = 0, which of the following plots depicts correctly the output voltage of the circuit as a function of time?

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A coaxial cable of uniform cross-section contains an insulating material of dielectric constant. The radius of the central wire is 0.01 m and that of the sheath is 0.02 m. The capacitance per kilometre of a cable is

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A parallel plate capacitor is being discharged. What is the direction of the energy flow in terms of the Poynting vector in the space between the plates?
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Two point charges Q1 = 1 nC and Q2 = 2 nC are kept in free space such that the distance between them is 0.1 m. Which of the statements is correct?

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The magnetic field (in A/m) inside a long solid cylindrical conductor of radius a = 0.1 m is       where,  What is the total current (in ampere) in the conductor?

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Four point charges are placed at the corners of a square whose centre is at the origin of a Cartesian coordinate system. A point dipole is placed at the centre of the square as shown in the figure. Then,
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A plane electromagnetic wave travelling in vacuum is incident normally on a non-magnetic, non-absorbing medium of refractive index n. The incident (Ei), reflected (Er) and transmitted (Et) electric fields are given as
Ei = E exp[i(kz - ωt)], Er = E0r exp[i(krz - ωt)], Et = E0t exp[i(ktz - ωt)]
If E = 2 V/m and n = 1.5, then the application of appropriate boundary conditions leads to

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An electric field applied along the length of a long, cylinder produces a polarization P. The depolarization field produced in this configuration is

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Consider a set of two stationary point charges q1 and q2 as shown in the figure. Which of the following statements is correct?
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Electromagnetic waves are propagating along a hollow, metallic waveguide whose cross-section is a square of side W. The minimum frequency of the electromagnetic waves is

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Consider an electric field existing in the interface between a conductor and free space. Then, the electric field E is

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If the photon were to have a finite mass, then the Coulomb potential between two stationary charges separated by a distance r would

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Three infinitely long wires are placed equally apart on the circumference of a circle of radius a perpendicular to its plane. Two of the wires carry current each, in the same direction, while the third carries current 2 along the direction opposite to the other two. The magnitude of the magnetic induction at a distancer from the centre of the circle for r > a, is

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A plane electromagnetic wave is given by      At a given location, the number of times vanishes in 1s is

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An electromagnetic wave is propagating in free space in the Z-direction. If the electric field is given by    where  then the magnetic field is given by

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The value of  along a square loop of side L in a uniform field is

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The vector potential in a region is, given as     The associated magnetic induction is is

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A classical charged particle moving with frequency ω in a circular orbit of radius a, centred at the origin in the XV-plane, electromagnetic radiation. At points (b, 0, 0) and (0, 0, b), where b ≫ a, the electromagnetic waves are

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A charge +q is kept at a distance of 2R from the centre of a grounded conducting sphere of radius R. The image charge and its distance from the centre respectively, are

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