ELECTRIC POTENTIAL ENERGY

The concepts of work, potential energy, and conservation of energy proved to be… Read more ELECTRIC POTENTIAL ENERGY

Field of A Uniformly Charged Sphere

Positive electric charge is distributed uniformly throughout the volume of an i… Read more Field of A Uniformly Charged Sphere

Field Between Oppositely Charged Parallel Conducting Plates

Two large plane parallel conducting plates are given charges of equal magnitude… Read more Field Between Oppositely Charged Parallel Conducting Plates

Field of An Infinite Plane Sheet of Charge

Use Gauss’s law to find the electric field caused by a thin, flat, infinite she… Read more Field of An Infinite Plane Sheet of Charge

Field of a Charged Conducting Sphere

We place a total positive charge on a solid conducting sphere with radius (Fig.… Read more Field of a Charged Conducting Sphere

Field Due to An Infinitely Long Straight Uniformly Charged Wire

Electric charge is distributed uniformly along an infinitely long, thin wire. T… Read more Field Due to An Infinitely Long Straight Uniformly Charged Wire

APPLICATIONS OF GAUSS’S LAW

Gauss’s law is valid for any distribution of charges and for any closed surface… Read more APPLICATIONS OF GAUSS’S LAW

GAUSS’S LAW

Gauss’s law is an alternative to Coulomb’s law. While completely equivalent to … Read more GAUSS’S LAW

DIPOLE IN A UNIFORM EXTERNAL FIELD

Consider a permanent dipole of dipole moment p in a uniform external field E ,… Read more DIPOLE IN A UNIFORM EXTERNAL FIELD

ELECTRIC DIPOLE

An electric dipole is a pair of equal and opposite point charges q and –q, sepa… Read more ELECTRIC DIPOLE

ELECTRIC FLUX

Consider flow of a liquid with velocity v , through a small flat surface dS, in… Read more ELECTRIC FLUX