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    This document discusses electricity and magnetism, including Coulomb's law and electrostatic induction. It recaps fundamental forces and introduces Coulomb's law, which quantitatively describes the electrostatic force between two point charges. The document also covers the superposition principle, explaining that the total electrostatic force on a charge is the vector sum of the forces from each individual other charge. It outlines an upcoming demonstration of electrostatic induction and summarizes what is known about electrostatic forces.

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    This document discusses electricity and magnetism, including Coulomb's law and electrostatic induction. It recaps fundamental forces and introduces Coulomb's law, which quantitatively describes the electrostatic force between two point charges. The document also covers the superposition principle, explaining that the total electrostatic force on a charge is the vector sum of the forces from each individual other charge. It outlines an upcoming demonstration of electrostatic induction and summarizes what is known about electrostatic forces.

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    This document discusses electricity and magnetism, including Coulomb's law and electrostatic induction. It recaps fundamental forces and introduces Coulomb's law, which quantitatively describes the electrostatic force between two point charges. The document also covers the superposition principle, explaining that the total electrostatic force on a charge is the vector sum of the forces from each individual other charge. It outlines an upcoming demonstration of electrostatic induction and summarizes what is known about electrostatic forces.

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    This document discusses electricity and magnetism, including Coulomb's law and electrostatic induction. It recaps fundamental forces and introduces Coulomb's law, which quantitatively describes the electrostatic force between two point charges. The document also covers the superposition principle, explaining that the total electrostatic force on a charge is the vector sum of the forces from each individual other charge. It outlines an upcoming demonstration of electrostatic induction and summarizes what is known about electrostatic forces.

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    Electricity and Magnetism

    Recap:
    Fundamental Forces E.S. Induction Coulombs law (qualitative)

    Coulombs Law (quantitative) Induction (Demos)

    Feb 11 2002

    What we learned last time (II)


    Strength of Electrostatic Force (qualitatively):
    If distance gets larger, force gets weaker If charge gets bigger, force gets stronger

    Coulombs Law (1780): Electrostatic Induction


    Force on (globally) neutral objects by redistributing balance of positive and negative charges

    Feb 11 2002

    What we learned last time (I)


    Four fundamental forces
    Weak, Strong, Electromagnetic, Gravity

    All mediated by Exchange Particles Exchange particle for E.M. Force is Photon
    mass m=0 -> Long Range

    E.M. Force dominates from 10-10 to 1 m E.M. Force is much stronger (x1035) than Gravity
    Feb 11 2002

    Today
    Study Coulombs Law
    Check Inverse square law (F~1/r2) experimentally

    Superposition principle
    What happens when there are many charges?

    Challenge Demo on E.S. Induction


    Summarize what we know about E.S.
    Feb 11 2002

    Coulombs Law
    y

    Angle

    F21
    x1 x2 x

    mg
    Feb 11 2002

    Superposition principle
    Just add the forces on Q1! Q3

    F13
    Q1

    F12
    Feb 11 2002

    F1,total
    Q2

    Superposition principle
    Just add the forces on Q1! Works for arbitrary number of charges:

    F1 = kQ1Qi/(ri/ri3)

    Feb 11 2002

    Superposition principle
    What to do for many, many charges?
    109 e- on glass rod...

    Calculus makes life easier (for a change)! Replace sum with integral!

    Feb 11 2002

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