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
The focus of this course is the study of electricity and magnetism. Basically, this is the study of how charges interact with each other. We study these interactions using the concept of “fields” which are both created by and felt by charges. Today we introduce fields in general as mathematical objects, and consider gravity as our first “field.” We then discuss how electric charges create electric fields and how those electric fields can in turn exert forces on other charges. The electric field is completely analogous to the gravitational field, where mass is replaced by electric charge, with the small exceptions that (1) charges can be either positive or negative while mass is always positive, and (2) while masses always attract, charges of the same sign repel (opposites attract).
- 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
