Objectives:

After completing this module students will be able to use Coulomb's law and the principle of superposition to find the electric force charged objects exert on each other and to calculate the electric field due to various charge distributions.  They will be able to use Gauss' law to find the electric field of symmetric charge distributions,

Electric forces and fields

Study the on-line material:

• Review: Vectors and vector fields

• The electric force

• The electric field

Start:

• Discussion 4

Complete:

• Assignment 9

Additional material:
Textbook, Chapters 5.1 - 5.7,  (Vol. 2)
Workbook, Modules 11.4 - 11.5

Gauss' law, polarization

Study the on-line material:

• Gauss' law

• Polarization

Complete:

• Assignment 10

• Lab 4

• Extra Credit 4, Discussion 4

Additional material:
Textbook, Chapter 6.1 - 6.4  (Vol. 2)
Workbook, Modules 11.6 - 11.7

If you miss having regular lectures, consider these video lectures.

• Lecture 1: What holds our world together?
• Lecture 2: Electric Field Lines
• Lecture 3: Electric Flux, Gauss's Law, Examples