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Electric Potential & Potential Energy: JEE Questions & Solutions

26 previous-year JEE Physics questions on Electric Potential & Potential Energy, each with a worked step-by-step solution.

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  1. 01A point charge of 10⁻⁸ C is placed at origin. The work done in moving a point charge 2 μC from point A(4, 4, 2) m to B(2, 2, 1) m is J.…MCQEasyJEE 2026
  2. 02If an alpha particle with energy 7.7 MeV is bombarded on a thin gold foil, the closest distance from nucleus it can reach is m. (Atomic…MCQEasyJEE 2026
  3. 03Consider two identical metallic spheres of radius R each having charge Q and mass m. Their centers have an initial separation of 4R. Both…MCQMediumJEE 2026
  4. 04Electric field in a region is given by E = A x i + B y j, where A = 10 V/m² and B = 5 V/m². If the electric potential at a point (10, 20)…MCQMediumJEE 2026
  5. 05Five positive charges each having charge q are placed at the vertices of a regular pentagon as shown in the figure. The electric potential…MCQEasyJEE 2026
  6. 06Three small identical bubbles of water having same charge on each coalesce to form a bigger bubble. Then the ratio of the potentials on one…MCQEasyJEE 2026
  7. 07Two charges 7 μ C and -2 μ C are placed at (-9, 0, 0) cm and (9, 0, 0) cm respectively in an external field E = A/r²r, where A = 9 × 10⁵…MCQMediumJEE 2026
  8. 08There are three co-centric conducting spherical shells A, B and C of radii a, b and c respectively (c>b>a) and they are charged with…MCQMediumJEE 2026
  9. 09The electrostatic potential in a charged spherical region of radius r varies as V = ar³ + b, where a and b are constants. The total charge…MCQMediumJEE 2026
  10. 10Two point charges of 1 nC and 2 nC are placed at two corners of an equilateral triangle of side 3 cm. The work done in bringing a charge of…MCQEasyJEE 2026
  11. 11Two charges 7 μ C and -4 μ C are placed at (-7 cm, 0, 0) and (7 cm, 0, 0) respectively. Given, ε₀ = 8.85 × 10⁻¹² C² N⁻¹ m⁻², the…MCQEasyJEE 2025
  12. 12In the first configuration (1) as shown in the figure, four identical charges q₀ are kept at the corners A, B, C and D of square of side…MCQMediumJEE 2025
  13. 13A particle of mass m and charge q is fastened to one end A of a massless string having equilibrium length l, whose other end is fixed at…MCQMediumJEE 2025
  14. 14Three infinitely long wires with linear charge density λ are placed along the x-axis, y-axis and z-axis respectively. Which of the…MCQMediumJEE 2025
  15. 15The battery of a mobile phone is rated as 4.2 V, 5800 mAh. How much energy is stored in it when fully charged?MCQEasyJEE 2025
  16. 16Two large plane parallel conducting plates are kept 10 cm apart as shown in the figure. The potential difference between them is V. The…MCQEasyJEE 2025
  17. 17The electrostatic potential on the surface of uniformly charged spherical shell of radius R = 10 cm is 120 V. The potential at the centre…MCQEasyJEE 2025
  18. 18Two charges q₁ and q₂ are separated by a distance of 30 cm. A third charge q₃ initially at C as shown in the figure, is moved along the…MCQMediumJEE 2025
  19. 19Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R Assertion A: Work done in moving a…MCQEasyJEE 2025
  20. 20The electric potential at the surface of an atomic nucleus (Z = 50) of radius 9 × 10⁻¹³ cm is x × 10⁶ V. The value of x is:NVAEasyJEE 2024
  21. 21The electric potential at the centre of two concentric half rings of radii R₁ and R₂, having the same linear charge density λ is:MCQEasyJEE 2023
  22. 22A point charge 2 × 10⁻² C is moved from P to S in a uniform electric field of 30 N/C directed along the positive x-axis. If the coordinates…MCQEasyJEE 2023
  23. 23Which of the following correctly represents the variation of electric potential (V) of a charged spherical conductor of radius (R) with…MCQEasyJEE 2023
  24. 24Considering a group of positive charges, which of the following statements is correct?MCQEasyJEE 2023
  25. 25For a uniformly charged thin spherical shell, the electric potential (V) radially away from the center of the shell can be graphically…MCQEasyJEE 2023
  26. 26Three concentric spherical metallic shells X, Y, and Z of radii a, b, and c respectively (a < b < c) have surface charge densities σ, -σ,…NVAMediumJEE 2023

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Our bank has 26 previous-year JEE Physics questions tagged to Electric Potential & Potential Energy, drawn from JEE papers between 2023 and 2026, including 10 from 2026 alone. Each comes with a full step-by-step solution.

Electric Potential & Potential Energy is rated Advanced overall for JEE Physics. The PYQs on this page break down as 16 easy, 10 medium.

Of the 26 previous-year questions on Electric Potential & Potential Energy, 24 are multiple-choice (MCQ) and 2 are numerical-value (NVA) questions.

Based on recent paper analysis, Electric Potential & Potential Energy is worth about 2 marks in JEE Main. It sits in Electrostatics, a Class 12 Physics chapter.

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