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Gauss's Law Applications: JEE Questions & Solutions

26 previous-year JEE Physics questions on Gauss's Law Applications, each with a worked step-by-step solution.

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  1. 01Two point charges 2q and q are placed at vertex A and centre of face CDEF of the cube as shown in figure. The electric flux passing through…MCQEasyJEE 2026
  2. 02Identify the correct statements: [A.] Electrostatic field lines form closed loops. [B.] The electric field lines point radially outward…MCQMediumJEE 2026
  3. 03A line charge of length a/2 is kept at the center of an edge BC of a cube ABCDEFGH having edge length a. If the density of the line is λ C…MCQMediumJEE 2025
  4. 04A square loop of sides a = 1 m is held normally in front of a point charge q = 1 C, the charge lying on the perpendicular through the…NVAMediumJEE 2025
  5. 05Match List - I with List - II: List - I: (A) Electric field inside (distance r > 0 from center) of a uniformly charged spherical shell with…MCQMediumJEE 2025
  6. 06A point charge causes an electric flux of -2 × 10⁴ N m²C⁻¹ to pass through a spherical Gaussian surface of 8.0 cm radius, centred on the…MCQEasyJEE 2025
  7. 07A small bob of mass 100 mg and charge +10 μC is connected to an insulating string of length 1 m. It is brought near to an infinitely long…MCQMediumJEE 2025
  8. 08Two infinite identical charged sheets and a charged spherical body of charge density ' ρ ' are arranged as shown in figure. Then the…MCQMediumJEE 2025
  9. 09Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R). Assertion (A): The outer body of…MCQEasyJEE 2025
  10. 10An infinitely long wire has uniform linear charge density λ = 2 nC/m. The net flux through a Gaussian cube of side length √3 cm, if the…MCQMediumJEE 2025
  11. 11An electron is released from rest near an infinite non-conducting sheet of uniform charge density -σ. The rate of change of de-Broglie…NVAMediumJEE 2025
  12. 12Two charges of 5Q and -2Q are situated at the points (3a, 0) and (-5a, 0) respectively. The electric flux through a sphere of radius 4a…MCQEasyJEE 2024
  13. 13An electric field is given by E = (6i + 5j + 3k) N/C. The electric flux through a surface area 30i m² lying in the YZ-plane (in SI units)…MCQEasyJEE 2024
  14. 14Five charges +q, +5q, -2q, +3q, -4q are situated as shown in the figure. The electric flux due to this configuration through the surface S…MCQEasyJEE 2024
  15. 15An electric field E = 2x i N/C exists in space. A cube of side 2 m is placed in the space. The electric flux through the cube is:MCQEasyJEE 2024
  16. 16Match List I with List II | List I | List II | |---|---| | (A) Gauss's Law in Electrostatics | (I) ∮ E· dl = -dΦ_B/dt | | (B) Faraday's Law…MCQEasyJEE 2023
  17. 17In a cuboid of dimensions 2L × 2L × L, a charge q is placed at the center of the surface S having area 4L². The flux through the opposite…MCQEasyJEE 2023
  18. 18For a charged spherical ball, the electrostatic potential inside the ball varies with r as V = 2ar² + b. The volume charge density inside…NVAMediumJEE 2023
  19. 19As shown in the figure, a point charge Q is placed at the centre of a conducting spherical shell of inner radius a and outer radius b. The…MCQEasyJEE 2023
  20. 20As shown in figure, a cuboid lies in a region with electric field E = 2x² i - 4y j + 6 k N/C. The magnitude of charge within the cuboid is…NVAMediumJEE 2023
  21. 21Expression for an electric field is given by E = 4000x² i V/m. The electric flux through the cube of side 20 cm when placed in the electric…NVAEasyJEE 2023
  22. 22Let σ be the uniform surface charge density of two infinite thin plane sheets shown in the figure. Then the electric fields in three…MCQEasyJEE 2023
  23. 23A cubical volume is bounded by the surfaces x = 0, x = a, y = 0, y = a, z = 0, z = a. The electric field in the region is given by E = E₀ x…NVAEasyJEE 2023
  24. 24Graphical variation of electric field due to a uniformly charged insulating solid sphere of radius R, with distance r from the center O is…MCQEasyJEE 2023
  25. 25A capacitor of capacitance C is charge to a potential V. The flux of the electric field through a closed surface enclosing the positive…MCQEasyJEE 2023
  26. 26Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R. Assertion A: If an electric dipole of…MCQEasyJEE 2023

Frequently asked questions

Our bank has 26 previous-year JEE Physics questions tagged to Gauss's Law Applications, drawn from JEE papers between 2023 and 2026, including 2 from 2026 alone. Each comes with a full step-by-step solution.

Gauss's Law Applications 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 Gauss's Law Applications, 20 are multiple-choice (MCQ) and 6 are numerical-value (NVA) questions.

Based on recent paper analysis, Gauss's Law Applications is worth about 2 marks in JEE Main. It sits in Electrostatics, a Class 12 Physics chapter.

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