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Q20.The height of transmitting antenna is 180 m and the height of the receiving antenna is 245 m . The maximum distance between them for satisfactory communication in line of sight will be: (given R = 6400 km ) JEE Main 2023 (15 Apr Shift 1) JEE Main Previous Year Paper (1) 96 km (2) 56 km (3) 48 km (4) 104 km

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This question tests the formula for the maximum distance in line-of-sight communication between a transmitting and a receiving antenna.

Concepts Tested

Antenna heightRange of line of sight communication

Formulas Used

d_max = √(2Rh_T) + √(2Rh_R)

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Reprint 2025-26 Chapter Two ELECTROSTATIC POTENTIAL AND CAPACITANCE 2.12.12.12.12.1 IIINTRODUCTIONIINTRODUCTIONNTRODUCTIONNTRODUCTIONNTRODUCTION In Chapters 5 and 7 (Class XI), the notion of potential energy was introduced. When an external force does work in taking a body from a point to another against a force like spring force or gravitational force, that work gets stored as potential energy of the body. When the external force is removed, the body moves, gaining kinetic energy and losing an equal amount of potential energy. The sum of kinetic and potential energies is thus conserved. Forces of this kind are called conservative forces. Spring force and gravitational force are examples of conservative forces. Coulomb force between two (stationary) charges is also a conservative force. 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First, we assume that the test charge q is so small that it does not disturb the original configuration, namely the charge Q at the origin (or else, we keep Q fixed at the origin by some unspecified force). Second, in bringing the charge q fromFIGURE 2.1 A test charge q (> 0) is moved from the point R to the R to P, we apply an external force Fext just enough to point P against the repulsive counter the repulsive electric force FE (i.e, Fext= –FE). force on it by the charge Q (> 0) This means there is no net force on or acceleration of placed at the origin. the charge q when it is brought from R to P, i.e., it is brought with infinitesimally slow constant speed. In this situation, work done by the external force is the negative of the work done by the electric force, and gets fully stored in the form of potential energy of the charge q. 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Reprint 2025-26 Electrostatic Potential and Capacitance (ii) Equation (2.2) defines potential energy difference in terms of the physically meaningful quantity work. Clearly, potential energy so defined is undetermined to within an additive constant.What this means is that the actual value of potential energy is not physically significant; it is only the difference of potential energy that is significant. We can always add an arbitrary constant a to potential energy at every point, since this will not change the potential energy difference: (U P + α) − (U R + α) = U P − U R Put it differently, there is a freedom in choosing the point where potential energy is zero. A convenient choice is to have electrostatic potential energy zero at infinity. With this choice, if we take the point R at infinity, we get from Eq. (2.2) Count Alessandro Volta (1745 – 1827) Italian W ∞ P = U P − U ∞ = U P (2.3) physicist, professor at Since the point P is arbitrary, Eq. (2.3) provides us with a Pavia. Volta established that the animal electri- COUNTdefinition of potential energy of a charge q at any point. city observed by LuigiPotential energy of charge q at a point (in the presence of field Galvani, 1737–1798, indue to any charge configuration) is the work done by the experiments with frog external force (equal and opposite to the electric force) in muscle tissue placed in bringing the charge q from infinity to that point. contact with dissimilar metals, was not due to 2.2 ELECTROSTATIC POTENTIAL any exceptional property of animal tissues but ALESSANDROConsider any general static charge configuration. We define was also generated potential energy of a test charge q in terms of the work done whenever any wet body on the charge q. This work is obviously proportional to q, since was sandwiched between the force at any point is qE, where E is the electric field at that dissimilar metals. This VOLTA point due to the given charge configuration. It is, therefore, led him to develop the convenient to divide the work by the amount of charge q, so first voltaic pile, orthat the resulting quantity is independent of q. In other words, battery, consisting of a (1745 work done per unit test charge is characteristic of the electric large stack of moist disks of cardboard (electro-field associated with the charge configuration. This leads to lyte) sandwiched the idea of electrostatic potential V due to a given charge between disks of metal –1827) configuration. From Eq. (2.1), we get: (electrodes). Work done by external force in bringing a unit positive charge from point R to P  U P − U R  = VP – VR = (2.4)  q  where VP and VR are the electrostatic potentials at P and R, respectively. Note, as before, that it is not the actual value of potential but the potential difference that is physically significant. If, as before, we choose the potential to be zero at infinity, Eq. (2.4) implies: Work done by an external force in bringing a unit positive charge from infinity to a point = electrostatic potential (V ) at that point. 47 Reprint 2025-26 Physics In other words, the electrostatic potential (V ) at any point in a region with electrostatic field is the work done in bringing a unit positive charge (without acceleration) from infinity to that point. The qualifying remarks made earlier regarding potential energy also apply to the definition of potential. To obtain the work done per unit test charge, we should take an infinitesimal test charge FIGURE 2.2 Work done on a test charge q dq, obtain the work done dW in bringing it from by the electrostatic field due to any given infinity to the point and determine the ratio charge configuration is independent dW/dq. Also, the external force at every point of the of the path, and depends only on path is to be equal and opposite to the electrostatic its initial and final positions. force on the test charge at that point. 2.3 POTENTIAL DUE TO A POINT CHARGE Consider a point charge Q at the origin (Fig. 2.3). For definiteness, take Q to be positive. We wish to determine the potential at any point P with position vector r from the origin. For that we must calculate the work done in bringing a unit positive test charge from infinity to the point P. For Q > 0, the work done against the repulsive force on the test charge is positive. Since work done is independent of the path, we choose a convenient path – along the radial direction from infinity to the point P. At some intermediate point P¢ on the path, the electrostatic force on a unit positive charge is FIGURE 2.3 Work done in bringing a unit positive test charge from infinity to the Q × 1 rˆ ′ (2.5) point P, against the repulsive force of 2 4 πε0r ' charge Q (Q > 0), is the potential at P due to the charge Q. where ˆ′r is the unit vector along OP¢. Work done against this force from r¢ to r¢ + Dr¢ is Q ∆W = − 2 ∆′r (2.6) 4 πε0r ' The negative sign appears because for Dr¢ < 0, DW is positive. Total work done (W) by the external force is obtained by integrating Eq. (2.6) from r¢ = ¥ to r¢ = r, r Q Q r Q = dr ′ = ε 0r ′ 2 4 πε0r ′ ∞ 4 πε0r (2.7) W = − ∫4∞ π This, by definition is the potential at P due to the charge Q Q V (r ) = (2.8) 48 4 πε0r Reprint 2025-26 Electrostatic Potential and Capacitance Equation (2.8) is true for any sign of the charge Q, though we considered Q > 0 in its derivation. For Q < 0, V < 0, i.e., work done (by the external force) per unit positive test charge in bringing it from infinity to the point is negative. This is equivalent to saying that work done by the electrostatic force in bringing the unit positive charge form infinity to the point P is positive. [This is as it should be, since for Q < 0, the force on a unit positive test charge is attractive, so that the electrostatic force and the displacement (from infinity to P) are FIGURE 2.4 Variation of potential V with r [in units of in the same direction.] Finally, we (Q/4pe0) m-1] (blue curve) and field with r [in units of (Q/4pe0) m-2] (black curve) for a point charge Q.note that Eq. (2.8) is consistent with the choice that potential at infinity be zero. Figure (2.4) shows how the electrostatic potential ( 1/r) and the electrostatic field (1/r 2 ) varies with r. Example 2.1 (a) Calculate the potential at a point P due to a charge of 4 × 10–7C located 9 cm away. (b) Hence obtain the work done in bringing a charge of 2 × 10–9 C from infinity to the point P. Does the answer depend on the path along which the charge is brought? Solution (a) = 4 × 104 V (b) W = qV = 2 × 10–9C × 4 × 104V = 8 × 10–5 J No, work done will be path independent. Any arbitrary infinitesimal path can be resolved into two perpendicular displacements: One along EXAMPLE r and another perpendicular to r. The work done corresponding to the later will be zero. 2.1

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Chapter
Communication Systems
Topic
Line of Sight Communication
Year
2023
Shift
15 Apr Shift 1
Q Number
Q20
Type
MCQ
NCERT Ref
Class 12 Physics Ch 15: Communication Systems

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