Electric Charges and Fields is a Class 12 Physics chapter that carries about 2.8% of the Physics questions in NEET. Practise it with 40 questions covering 2 topics, each with an explanation.
Sets of 15 questions that adapt to your level, with an explanation for every answer.
Across the 13 previous year papers, Electric Charges and Fields had 19 questions, about 1.5 a year. The most in one paper was 4, in NEET 2023.
| Paper | Questions from this chapter |
|---|---|
| NEET 2026 | 1 |
| NEET 2025 | 2 |
| NEET 2024 | 0 |
| NEET 2023 | 4 |
| NEET 2022 | 2 |
| NEET 2021 | 2 |
| NEET 2020 | 1 |
| NEET 2019 | 3 |
| NEET 2018 | 1 |
| NEET 2017 | 1 |
| NEET 2016 | 1 |
| Re-AIPMT 2015 | 1 |
| AIPMT 2014 | 0 |
8 questions from the practice bank, spread across the chapter's topics. The full set is in the app.
The ratio of the electrostatic force to the gravitational force between two electrons is of the order of:
Answer: D. 10⁴²
Why: The electric force is enormously larger than the gravitational force at the atomic scale.
The electric field inside a uniformly charged hollow conducting sphere is:
Answer: B. zero everywhere inside
Why: By Gauss's law, since no charge is enclosed within any Gaussian surface drawn inside a hollow conducting sphere (all charge resides on the outer surface), the electric field inside is zero.
Two identical conducting spheres carry charges of +6 μC and +2 μC. They are touched together and separated. Each now carries:
Answer: B. +4 μC
Why: The charge is shared equally between identical spheres, so (6 + 2)/2 = 4 μC.
A closed surface contains no net charge. The net electric flux through it is:
Answer: D. zero
Why: By Gauss's law, the flux is q_enclosed/ε₀ = 0.
The SI unit of the electric dipole moment is:
Answer: A. coulomb metre
Why: p = q × 2a, a charge multiplied by a distance, so its unit is C m.
The electric field at a distance r from an infinitely long line charge with a linear density λ is:
Answer: B. λ/(2πε₀r)
Why: E ∝ 1/r for a line charge.
Two point charges, each of magnitude q, are separated by a distance r in vacuum and experience a mutual force F. If the distance is halved, the new force is:
Answer: D. 4F
Why: Coulomb's force follows F ∝ 1/r². Halving the distance increases the force by a factor of 4.
Inside a uniformly charged non-conducting solid sphere, the electric field at a distance r from the centre varies as:
Answer: C. r
Why: The charge enclosed is proportional to r³, and the area to r², so E ∝ r.
Electric Charges and Fields carries about 2.8% of the Physics questions in NEET. Across the 13 previous year papers on NeetVictory it appeared 19 times, about 1.5 questions a year.
Electric Charges and Fields is a Class 12 Physics chapter in the NCERT syllabus.
NeetVictory has 40 practice questions on Electric Charges and Fields, each with an explanation, in sets of 15 that adapt to your level. This page shows a free sample.
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