Unit 8 - Overview

Overview

Unit 8.1

• Electrical charge

  • Negative and positive charge
  • Conservation of electrical charge
  • Quantization of charge

• Induction

  • Conductors and insulators
  • Charging objects by induction

Unit 8.2

• Coulomb's Law
  • Coulomb's Law equation and constant
  • Electrostatic forces

Unit 8.3

• Electric Fields

  • Electric Field equation and vector calculations
  • Properties of electric fields

• Electric Fields of Continuous Charge Distributions

  • Calculating electric fields through calculus
  • Values needed for electric field integration

Unit 8.4

• Electric Field Lines
  • Drawing electric field lines
  • Rules and purpose behind line representations of electric fields

Unit 8.5

• Motion of Charged Particles in an Electric Field
  • Acceleration in an electric field
  • Mechanics in Context to Electricity and Magnetism

Unit 8.6

• Electric Flux
  • Explanation of what electric flux is
  • Calculating flux
• Gauss's Law
  • Definition and equation of Gauss's Law
  • How one can use Gauss's Law to calculate electric flux

Unit 8.7

• Applications of Gauss's Law
  • How Gauss's Law is used in continuous charge distributions
  • Gauss's Law in electrostatic equilibrium