Module 4: Electric Forces and Fields

Syllabus List of Modules Schedule Laboratories

Web Material: Forces and Fields

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.
Additional Material:
Serway 3rd and 4th edition, Chapters 19.1-19.7
Serway, 2nd edition, Chapters 19.1-19.6
CD and Workbook, Modules 11.1-11.5
Assignment:
Assignment 8

 

Web Material: Gauss' Law

Objectives:
After completing this module students will be able to use Gauss' law to find the electric field of symmetric charge distributions.
Additional Material:
Serway 3rd and 4th edition, Chapters 19.8-19.12
Serway, 2nd edition, Chapters 19.7-19.10
CD and Workbook, Modules 11.6-11.7
Assignment:
Assignment 9