Syllabus ‘Electrostatics’
Electric Charges and Field
- Electric charges,
- Conductors and insulators,
- Charging by induction,
- Charging by friction,
- Properties of electric charge
- Coulomb’s law,
- Vector form of coulomb’s law,
- principle of superposition,
- forces between multiple charges
- Electric field,
- Electric field due to a point charge,
- superposition principle,
- Electric field due to a group of charges
- Motion of a charged particle in uniform electric field,
- Electric field of a continuous charge distribution,
- volume, surface and linear charge distribution,
- Electric field due to a linear charge distribution like a straight rod,
- Electric field on the axis of a disk, ring and other cases of interest
- Electric lines of force,
- properties of lines of force,
- lines of force due to a positive and negative point charge.
- Electric flux
- Gauss’s Law and application,
- Calculating electric field using Gauss’s law.
- Electric field due to
- a point charge,
- An infinite linear charge distribution
- Electric field due to
- A hollow cylinder of charge,
- Charged solid cylinder,
- A shell of charge,
- Uniform sphere of charge,
- An infinite thin non conducting sheet
- Electric dipole,
- Dipole moment,
- Electric field due to an electric dipole on axial line
- Electric field due to an electric dipole on
- equatorial line and
- At any other point ,
- Electric dipole in a uniform electric field
- Potential energy associated with dipole,
- Dipole in non-uniform electric field,
- Dipole oscillation
