Electrostatic Potential and Capacitance is a Class 12 Physics chapter that carries about 5.0% of the Physics questions in NEET. Practise it with 48 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, Electrostatic Potential and Capacitance had 25 questions, about 1.9 a year. The most in one paper was 4, in NEET 2021.
| Paper | Questions from this chapter |
|---|---|
| NEET 2026 | 2 |
| NEET 2025 | 1 |
| NEET 2024 | 4 |
| NEET 2023 | 1 |
| NEET 2022 | 2 |
| NEET 2021 | 4 |
| NEET 2020 | 3 |
| NEET 2019 | 0 |
| NEET 2018 | 1 |
| NEET 2017 | 2 |
| NEET 2016 | 1 |
| Re-AIPMT 2015 | 1 |
| AIPMT 2014 | 3 |
8 questions from the practice bank, spread across the chapter's topics. The full set is in the app.
The dielectric strength of a material is the:
Answer: D. maximum electric field it can withstand without breaking down
Why: Above this field, the dielectric becomes conducting (breakdown) and sparks occur.
The equipotential surfaces in a uniform electric field are:
Answer: D. planes perpendicular to the field
Why: The field is perpendicular to equipotentials everywhere and points towards decreasing potential.
The field between the plates of a parallel plate capacitor with a potential difference of 100 V and a separation of 1 cm is:
Answer: D. 10⁴ V/m
Why: E = V/d = 100/0.01 = 10⁴ V/m.
The potential at a distance of 0.3 m from a point charge of 3 nC is (k = 9 × 10⁹ N m²/C²):
Answer: A. 90 V
Why: V = kq/r = 9 × 10⁹ × 3 × 10⁻⁹/0.3 = 90 V.
Two capacitors of 2 μF and 3 μF are connected in parallel. Their equivalent capacitance is:
Answer: C. 5 μF
Why: Capacitances add in parallel: 2 + 3 = 5 μF.
Four equal charges q are placed at the corners of a square of side a. The potential at the centre is:
Answer: B. 4√2 kq/a
Why: Each charge is at a distance a/√2, so V = 4 × kq/(a/√2) = 4√2 kq/a.
When a dielectric slab of constant K completely fills the space between the plates of a parallel plate capacitor, its capacitance becomes:
Answer: D. K times the original
Why: C = Kε₀A/d, so filling the gap with a dielectric multiplies the capacitance by K.
The work done in moving a charge between two points on the same equipotential surface is:
Answer: B. zero
Why: There is no potential difference between the points, so W = qΔV = 0.
Electrostatic Potential and Capacitance carries about 5.0% of the Physics questions in NEET. Across the 13 previous year papers on NeetVictory it appeared 25 times, about 1.9 questions a year.
Electrostatic Potential and Capacitance is a Class 12 Physics chapter in the NCERT syllabus.
NeetVictory has 48 practice questions on Electrostatic Potential and Capacitance, each with an explanation, in sets of 15 that adapt to your level. This page shows a free sample.
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