Week 10: Calculating the Field from the Potential, Electric Potential Energy of a System of Point Charges, Potential of a Charged Isolated Conductor, Check points, Questions and Problems
Today we are focusing on understanding and calculating the electric field generated by a continuous distribution of charge. We will do problem solving #2, which highlights this concept and the associated calculations.
Course Material
- Week 1: Introduction, Electric Charge properties, Conductors and Insulators, Charge Quantization, Charge Conservation, Check points, Questions
- Week 2: Coulombs law in free space, The Electric Field, Electric Field Lines, The Electric Field Due to a Point Charge, Check points, Questions and Problems
- Week 3: The Electric Field Due to an Electric Dipole, The Electric Field Due to a Line of Charge, Check points, Questions
- Week 4: The Electric Field Due to a Charged ring, The Electric Field Due to a Charged Disk, Check points, Questions
- Week 5: A Point Charge in an Electric Field, A Dipole in an Electric, Check points, Questions and Problems
- Week 6: Flux, Flux of an Electric Field, Gauss' Law, Gauss' Law and Coulomb's Law, A Charged Isolated Conductor, Check points, Questions
- Week 7: Applying Gauss' Law: Cylindrical Symmetry, Applying Gauss' Law: Planar Symmetry, Applying Gauss' Law: Spherical Symmetry, Check points, Questions and Problems
- Week 8: Electric Potential Energy, Electric Potential, Equipotential Surfaces, Calculating the Potential from the Field, Potential Due to a Point Charge
- Week 9: Potential Due to an Electric Dipole, Potential Due to a Continuous Charge Distribution, Check points, Questions
- Week 10: Calculating the Field from the Potential, Electric Potential Energy of a System of Point Charges, Potential of a Charged Isolated Conductor, Check points, Questions and Problems
- Chapters 10
- Department Physics
- Teacher
Dr. Safdar Hussain
