L 4.3,4.7-- Coulomb's Law

Questions of the Day:

• WHAT is the Electric Field???
• How do you apply Coulomb’s Law  in:
  
  • –Point, Line, Surface, Volume charge distributions
  • –Rectangular, Cylindrical, Spherical Coordinate systems

Reference Materials:

• Textbook Section: 4-3,7
• I will refer to Coulomb’s Cookbook Download Coulomb’s Cookbook
  and Textbook Table 3-1.  Have them handy when you watch the videos.

Video Lectures: (Watch these videos before coming to class):

• Power Point to take notes on: L15.ppt Download L15.ppt
• Lecture Notes: L21.pdf  Download L21.pdf 

Example of Coulomb's law.pdf  Download Example of Coulomb's law.pdf 

Coulomb examples.pdf Download Coulomb examples.pdf

Also see Example Exam Problem:  Midterm II 2005 Problem 2 (ignore the H field part)

Applications:

Youtube  << Helicopter Lineman Video Links to an external site.

Charge Meter for lightning Links to an external site.