These are the chapter summaries I have been displaying in class, along with a few
other pages of notes I showed during class on the document camera. I have
been updating as we go along; the ones for chapters to come are from a
previous semester.
(All are pdf files, and some are a bit storage-intensive.)
Chapter 21
Coulomb's law and ch. 21 summary
summary of MKSA units for electricity
electric fields
treatment of extended charges
fields of line of charge, and
plane of charge (4 pages)
nonuniform charge example, and
conductor properties (2 pages)
schematic of electon microscope
Chapter 22
ch. 22 summary; Gauss' law
defining flux
Gauss' law
Gaussian surfaces
Gauss' law applied to dipole field
Conductors, from Gauss' law viewpoint
Which law can be used to find E
in these cases?
Chapter 23
ch. 23 summary; energy and electric potential
energy for moving point charges
energy of assembly for point charges (2 pages)
properties of the potential field (V) (6 pages)
electric potential of solid charged insulator
electric potential in conductors
illustration of ground plane
integrated potential for line of charge
charge acceleration and energy conservation
potential from gradient of point charge
Chapter 24
capacitance summary
example of capacitor circuit
field energy of charged conductor
and assembly energy
Chapter 25
resistance and current summary
resistor configuration concepts
current vs. drift velocity figure
lumped circuit approximation
joule heating and waterwheel analog
Chapter 26
circuit laws
R vs. C parallel devices
ideal voltmeter and ammeter, and circuit (2
pages)
transients in capactor "flow through"
RC decay
circuit example for RC decay
a blinker circuit
Chapter 27
magnetic forces summary
cross product calculation
magnetic forces on charges vs. currents
cyclotron problem and helical
trajectory
circular trajectory problem
loudspeaker workings
Chapter 28
magnetic sources summary
Biot-Savart law and field of a
long wire (3 pages)
magnetic superposition problem with
long wires
Helmholtz coils (4 pages)
comparison of electric vs. magnetic
field laws, and concept example for Ampere's law (2 pages)
magnetic flux
Ampere's vs. Biot-Savart laws
concept question
Chapter 29
Faraday's law summary
jumping ring explanation
alternator sketch
Mr. Freeze
electric fields from Faraday's law
Maxwell's equations summary
Chapter 30
inductors summary
inductance of solenoid
inductors applications
mutual inductance with rectangular loop
example problem with LR circuit
inductors and make before break switches
(2 pages)
energy storage in inductors (2 pages)
energy in LC circuit
example problem with LC circuit
LC circuit in crystal radio
example problem with various components
Chapter 32
waves summary
Chapter 33
reflection and refraction
Chapter 34
mirrors and lenses
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