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| Electric Charge | |
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| Why do video monitors in surgical rooms increase the risk of bacterial contamination? | |
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| What Is Physics? | |
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| Electric Charge | |
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| Conductors and Insulators | |
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| Coulomb's Law | |
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| Charge Is Quantized | |
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| Charge Is Conserved | |
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| Review & Summary | |
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| Questions | |
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| Problems | |
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| Electric Fields | |
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| What causes sprites, those brief .ashes of light high above lightning storms? | |
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| What Is Physics? | |
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| The Electric Field | |
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| Electric Field Lines | |
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| The Electric Field Due to a Point Charge | |
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| The Electric Field Due to an Electric Dipole | |
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| The Electric Field Due to a Line of Charge | |
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| The Electric Field Due to a Charged Disk | |
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| A Point Charge in an Electric Field | |
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| A Dipole in an Electric Field | |
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| Review & Summary | |
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| Questions | |
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| Problems | |
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| Gauss' Law | |
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| How can lightning harm you even if it do es not strike you? | |
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| What Is Physics? | |
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| Flux | |
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| Flux of an Electric Field | |
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| Gauss' Law | |
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| Gauss' Law and Coulomb's Law | |
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| A Charged Isolated Conductor | |
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| Applying Gauss' Law: Cylindrical Symmetry | |
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| Applying Gauss' Law: Planar Symmetry | |
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| Applying Gauss' Law: Spherical Symmetry | |
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| Review & Summary | |
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| Questions | |
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| Problems | |
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| Electric Potential | |
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| What danger does a sweater pose to a computer? | |
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| What Is Physics? | |
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| Electric Potential Energy | |
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| Electric Potential | |
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| Equipotential Surfaces | |
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| Calculating the Potential from the Field | |
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| Potential Due to a Point Charge | |
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| Potential Due to a Group of Point Charges | |
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| Potential Due to an Electric Dipole | |
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| Potential Due to a Continuous Charge Distribution | |
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| Calculating the Field from the Potential | |
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| Electric Potential Energy of a System of Point Charges | |
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| Potential of a Charged Isolated Conductor | |
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| Review & Summary | |
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| Questions | |
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| Problems | |
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| Capacitance | |
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| How did a fire start in a stretcher being withdrawn from an oxygen chamber? | |
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| What Is Physics? | |
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| Capacitance | |
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| Calculating the Capacitance | |
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| Capacitors in Parallel and in Series | |
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| Energy Stored in an Electric Field | |
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| Capacitor with a Dielectric | |
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| Dielectrics: An Atomic View | |
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| Dielectrics and Gauss' Law | |
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| Review & Summary | |
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| Questions | |
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| Problems | |
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| Current and Resistance | |
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| What precaution should you take if caught outdoors during a lightning storm? | |
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| What Is Physics? | |
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| Electric Current | |
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| Current Density | |
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| Resistance and Resistivity | |
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| Ohm's Law | |
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| A Microscopic View of Ohm's Law | |
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| Power in Electric Circuits | |
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| Semiconductors | |
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| Superconductors | |
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| Review & Summary | |
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| Questions | |
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| Problems | |
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| Circuits | |
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| How can a pit crew avoid a fire while fueling a charged race car? | |
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| What Is Physics? | |