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Sections & Topics Covered
The first exam covers the following parts of chapters 5, 6, 16, & 17
in Sternheim and Kane:
- 5.5, 5.6, and 6.8
- 16.1 through 16.3
- 16.5 through 16.11
- 17.1 through 17.5
The topics covered are:
- charge, electric force, and Coulomb's law
- electric field
- fields of specific charge distributions covered in class
(point charges, dipoles, spheres, planes, and lines)
- field lines
- kinematics of a charged particle in an external E-field
- behavior of an electric dipole in an external E-field
- electric potential energy & electric potential
- relation between fields and potentials
- potentials of specific charge distributions covered in class
(point charges, spheres, and planes)
- equipotential lines
- kinematics of a charged particle in an E-field
- capacitance
- general relations
- applications to parallel-plate capacitor
- effect of dielectric
- what happens when you change plate separation or dielectric
constant
- electric current, resistance, and EMF
- electric circuits
- finding current and potential difference
- Kirchhoff's rules
- series and parallel resistors
- power
Important Equations
Chapter 16
general equations
applications & combinations
Chapter 17
Some Important 1st Semester Equations
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