Chapter 1 - Electric Charges and fields

Topics covered

  • Electric charge
  • Gold Leaf Electroscope
  • Origin of Electric Charge in electrostatics
  • Conductors, Insulators, and Dielectrics
  • Charing by Induction
  • Conservation of Charge
  • Comparing Mass and Charge
  • Coulomb’s Law
  • Coulomb’s Law in Vector Form
  • Dielectric constant or relative electrical permittivity
  • Forces b/w multiple charges: Principle of superposition
  • Electric Field
  • Electric Field Intensity
  • Electric field intensity due to a point charge
  • Electric field intensity due to a group of charges
  • Electric field intensity due to the continuous charge distribution
  • The physical significance of Electric Field
  • Electric Field Lines
  • Properties of E.F. Lines
  • Electric Field Intensity
  • Electric Dipole
  • Dipole moment
  • Physical Significance of Electric Dipole
  • Dipole Field
  • Field Intensity on the axial line of electric dipole
  • Electric Field intensity on Equatorial line of electric Dipole
  • Electric Field due to short Electric Dipole
  • Electric field intensity at any point on the axis of the uniformly charged ring
  • Electric dipole in uniform 2-D Electric Field
  • The potential energy of Dipole in a uniform electric Field
  • Electric Flux
  • Gauss’s Theorem in Electrostatics
  • Coulomb’s law from Gauss’s Theorem
  • Application of Gauss’s Theorem – Field due to infinitely long straight uniformly charged wire
  • Electric Field due to uniformly Charged spherical shell
  • Electric Field intensity due to Non-conducting charged solid sphere
  • Electric Field intensity due to thin infinite plane sheet of charge
  • Electric Field intensity due to two thin infinite parallel sheets of charge

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