NEET UG 2026 · Physics · Question 21
NEET 2026 Physics, question 21
Question 21 of the NEET 2026 paper (re-exam) is a Physics question from Electrostatic Potential and Capacitance. Its idea, Potential and Energy near a Charged Sphere, was asked 3 times, in 2024 and 2026, across NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 4.
Updated 2026-10-08
Q21 · Physics
A unit positive point charge is taken slowly through an infinitesimally thin tube that is inside a charged dielectric sphere of radius R, having uniform positive charge density , as shown in the figure. The initial and final positions of the charge are marked by A and B at distances 2R and 3R respectively, from the centre of the sphere. In this process, the magnitude of the total work done on the point charge is . The value of n is :
( is the permittivity of vacuum)
The figure, described in words
Charged dielectric sphere of radius R, centre O, charge density ρ; a thin tube runs through it from A (at 2R from O) to B (at 3R from O on the opposite side); dashed path with arrow from A to B.
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Official answer: option 4 · NTA final answer key
Same idea
Potential and Energy near a Charged Sphere, in other papers
NEET asked this idea 3 times, in 2024 and 2026. The other 2 questions below.
- 2026 Q34Consider a fixed uniformly charged insulating sphere with radius R and total charge +Q. A point charge () with mass m is…Numerical · Medium
- 2024 Q6A thin spherical shell is charged by some source. The potential difference between the two points and (in V) shown in the figure…Figure-based · Easy
Potential and Energy near a Charged Sphere: every question and how it was framed
The chapter
Electrostatic Potential and Capacitance in ten years of NEET
23 questions from 2017–2026, asked in 9 of 10 papers, about 2.2 a paper. Electrostatic Potential alone had 9.