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.

Electric forces

Study the on-line material:

• Review: Vectors and vector fields

• The electric force

Electric fields, polarization

Study the on-line material:

• The electric field

• Polarization

• Electrophoresis