Ch. 21: Digest / Chapter Problems

10 Core Skills:

• Skill 1: Gravitational vs. Electrical (example 21.1)

• Skill 2: Force between 2 charges (example 21.2)

• Skill 3: Superposition of Forces I (example 21.3)

• Skill 4: Superposition of Forces II (example 21.4)

• Skill 5: Field magnitude (example 21.5)

• Skill 6: Field vector (example 21.6)

• Skill 7: Field Superposition (example 21.8)

• Skill 8: Field of ring of charge (example 21.9) Calculus required

• Skill 9: Field of charged line (example 21.10) Calculus required

• Skill 10: Field of charged disk (example 21.11) Calculus required

Suggested Study from Prof. Ferenc

LibreText

• Example 1.1

• Example 1.2

• Example 1.3

Highly Recommended For Further Understanding

Walter Lewin MIT Lectures:

• Lecture 1: What holds our world together? Electric Charges (Historical), Polarization, Electric Force, Coulomb's Law

• Lecture 2: Electric Field, Field Lines, Superposition, Inductive Charging, Dipoles, Induced Dipoles

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Ch. 22: Digest / Chapter Problems

7 Core Skills:

• Find the field for 3 Basic Charge Symmetries

  • • Skill 1: Sphere of Charge

    • Skill 2: Line of Charge

    • Skill 3: Plane of Charge

• Application of Basic Symmetries

  • • Skill 4: 2 parallel planes of charge (Capacitor)

    • Skill 5: Charged Conductive Sphere

    • Skill 6: Charged Insulating Sphere

    • Skill 7: Charged Insulating Cylinder/Cable

Highly Recommended For Further Understanding

Walter Lewin MIT Lectures:

• Lecture 3: Electric Flux, Gauss's Law, Examples

• Maxwell's Equation 1: Gauss's Law

  • • E-book: Student's Guide to Maxwell's Equations

    • Problems and Podcasts: http://www.danfleisch.com/maxwell/#

Ch. 23: Digest / Chapter Problems

Core Skills:

Skill:

Highly Recommended For Further Understanding

• Walter Lewin Lecture 4: Electrostatic Potential, Electric Energy, Conservative Field, Equipotential Surfaces

• Walter Lewin Lecture 5: E = -grad V, More Equipotential Surfaces, Conductors, Electrostatic Shielding (Faraday Cage)