Applications of Gauss’s Law
Applications of Gauss’s Law
Field due to an infinitely long straight uniformly charged wire
Field due to uniformly...
Gauss’s Law
The surface integral of electrostatic field E produced by any source over any closed surface S enclosing a volume V in vacuum i.e. total electric flux over...
Electric Dipole
An electric dipole is a pair of equal and opposite charges q and –q separated by some distance 2a. Its dipole moment vector p...
Electric Flux
Consider a plane surface of area ΔS in a uniform electric field E in the space. Draw a positive normal to the surface and...
Electric Field Lines
For a single positive point charge q, electric field is
Since electric field varies as the inverse of the square of...
Electric Field
Electric Field
An electric field is said to exist at a point if a force of electrical origin is exerted on a stationary charged body...
Forces between Multiple Charges
According to the parallelogram law of addition. Experimentally it is verified that force on any charge due to a number of other charges is...
Coulomb’s Law
Coulomb’s law is a quantitative statement about the force between two point charges.
When the linear size of charged bodies are much smaller than the...
Electric Charge
Electric charge is the property responsible for electric forces which act between nucleus and electron to bind the atom together. Electric charge is a...
Conductors and Insulators
Conductors:
The substances through which electric charges can flow easily are called conductors.
Some substances readily allow passage of electricity through them, others do not. Those...