Week 8: Electric Potential Energy, Electric Potential, Equipotential Surfaces, Calculating the Potential from the Field, Potential Due to a Point Charge
We first discuss groups and what we expect from you in group work. We then turn to the concept of electric potential. Just as electric fields are analogous to gravitational fields, electric potential is analogous to gravitational potential. We introduce from the point of view of calculating the electric potential given the electric field. Next we consider the opposite process, that is, how to calculate the electric field if we are given the electric potential.
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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
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Dr. Safdar Hussain
