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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:epub="http://www.idpf.org/2007/ops"> <head><title>07 Electrostatics</title></head> <body><h1>Electrostatics</h1> <h2>Section title</h2> <div class="teachers-guide" data-unknown="true"><div class="title"></div> <p>Notes</p> <p>The following topics are covered in this chapter.</p> <ul data-class="ListBulleted"><li> Coulomb's Law <ul data-class="ListBulleted"><li>State Coulomb's law in words as the force between two charges is directly proportional to the product of the charges and inversely proportional to the distance between the charges squared </li> <li>Know Coulomb's law can be represented mathematically as <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow> <mi>F</mi> <mo>=</mo> <mfrac> <mrow> <mi>k</mi> <msub> <mi>q</mi> <mn>1</mn> </msub> <msub> <mi>q</mi> <mn>2</mn> </msub> </mrow> <msup> <mi>r</mi> <mn>2</mn> </msup> </mfrac> </mrow><annotation encoding="math/tex">F=\frac{kq_1q_2}{r^2}</annotation></semantics></math> Solve problems using Coulomb's law to calculate the force between two charges </li> </ul></li> <li> (b) Electric Fields <ul data-class="ListBulleted"><li>Describe an electric field as a region of space in which an electric charge experiences a force. The direction of the electric field at a point is the direction that a positive test charge would move if placed at that point. </li> <li>Draw electric field lines for various configurations of charges (point charges, two point charges, outside a charged hollow sphere, parallel plates) </li> <li>Define the magnitude of the electric field at a point as the force per unit positive charge <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow> <mi>E</mi> <mo>=</mo> <mfrac> <mi>F</mi> <mi>q</mi> </mfrac> </mrow><annotation encoding="math/tex">E=\frac{F}{q}</annotation></semantics></math>  where E and F are vectors </li> <li>Solve problems using <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow> <mi>E</mi> <mo>=</mo> <mfrac> <mi>F</mi> <mi>q</mi> </mfrac> </mrow><annotation encoding="math/tex">E=\frac{F}{q}</annotation></semantics></math> (no parallel plates) </li> <li>Calculate the electric field strength at a point due to a point charge, using the equation <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow> <mi>E</mi> <mo>=</mo> <mfrac> <mrow> <mi>k</mi> <mi>Q</mi> </mrow> <msup> <mi>r</mi> <mn>2</mn> </msup> </mfrac> </mrow><annotation encoding="math/tex">E=\frac{kQ}{r^2}</annotation></semantics></math>  to determine the contribution to the field due to each charge (Convention: Q represents the charge responsible for the electric field. q represents the charge experiencing the electric field) </li> <li>Determine the resultant electric field for a maximum of two charges </li> </ul></li> </ul><figcaption></figcaption></div></body> </html>