🔖 Topics
- Definition of electric potential and potential difference
- Relationship between electric field and electric potential
- Electric potential due to discrete charge distributions
- Electric potential due to continuous charge distributions
🎯 Objectives
- Calculate the electric potential some distance away from a point charge
- Determine the orientation of electric field lines in relation to equipotential surfaces
- Determine how the density of equipotential lines affects the strength of the electric field
- Explain how electric potential lines are similar to a topographical map
📋 Sequence
- Calculation of electric potential from electric field
- Straight path along uniform electric field
- Diagonal path along uniform electric field
- Straight path along non-uniform electric field
- Diagonal path along non-uniform electric field
- Radially outwards from point charge
- Calculation of electric field from electric potential
- Zero electric potential
- Uniform electric potential
- Non-uniform electric potential in the x-direction
- Example using del operator
- Calculation of electric potential from discrete charges
- Single point charge
- Electric dipole
- Calculation of electric potential from continuous charges
- Ring of charge
- Calculation of electric potential
- Calculation of electric field from potential
- Oscillations of a point charge around the center of the ring
- Ring of charge
🖥️ Animations, Simulations, Activities
- Electric Field Simulation
- Equipotentials and Electric Fields
- Oscillations of Point Charge Near Center of Ring
📝 Practice Problems
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✅ Partial Solutions
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📘 Connected Resources
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