Electricity and Magnetism

Contents

List of Examples ix

Preface xi

I Electricity and Magnetism 1

1 Electric Charge, Coulomb’s Law, Electric Field 3

2 Electric Dipole, Motion of Charged Particles 9

3 Continuous Charge Distributions 19

4 Above a Uniformly Charged Rectangular Plate 29

5 Electric Flux and Gauss’s Law 35

6 More Gauss’s Law 43

7 Electrostatic Implications and Potential Energy 51

8 Potentially Fun! 57

9 Electrostatic Potential Energy 61

10 Rife with Potential 67

11 Potentials, Fields, and All That 75

12 Capacitance 83

13 Capacitors in Series and Parallel 89

14 Energetics of Capacitance 99

15 Dielectrics 105

16 Energetics of Dipoles 113

17 Electric Current 117

18 Electric Curren ...