PHY 102 Power Point
PHY 102 Power Point
PHY 102 Power Point
GENERAL PHYSICS II
Course Code: PHY 102
Session: 2023/2024
OLADEJO O. F. (Ph.D)
Department of Physics
Faculty of Basic and Applied Sciences
Course Description
Electrostatics – Electric charges and fields. Gauss’s
Law. Electric Potential, Properties of Electric
Charges, Charging by Conduction, Charging by
induction, Coulomb’s Law, The Electric Field,
Electric Field Lines, Electric Flux and Gauss’s Law,
Electric Potential and Potential Energy Due to
Point Charges, Capacitance, Combinations of
Capacitors,
Course Schedule
Properties of Electric Charges,Charging by
Conduction, Charging by induction,
Coulomb’s Law
The Electric Field, Electric Field Lines,
Electric Flux and Gauss’s Law,
Capacitance, Combinations of
Capacitors,
Week 1 – Properties of Electric Charges, Charging by
Conduction, Charging by induction, Coulomb’s Law
• Experiments demonstrate that there are two kinds of electric charge,
which Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790) named positive and negative
• On the basis of observations, it is concluded that like charges repel
one another and unlike charges attract one another.
• Objects usually contain equal amounts of positive and negative
charge —electrical forces between objects arise when those objects
have net negative or positive charges.
• Charge transfers readily from one type of material to another
• electric charge is always conserved
• In conductors, electric charges move freely in response to an electric
force. All other materials are called insulators.
• Charging by Conduction
• Charging by Induction
• Coulomb’s Law
In 1785 Charles Coulomb (1736 – 1806) experimentally
established the fundamental law of electric force between two
stationary charged particles.
An electric force has the following properties:
1.It is directed along a line joining the two particles and is
inversely proportional to the square of the separation distance
r, between them.
2.It is proportional to the product of the magnitudes of the
charges, q1 and q2, of the two particles.
3.It is attractive if the charges are of opposite sign and
repulsive if the charges have the same sign.
• The magnitude of the electric force F between charges q1 and q2
separated by a distance r is given by
Example: Three charges lie along the x-axis. The positive charge q1 = 15
μC is at x = 2.0 m, and the positive charge q2 = 6.0μC is at the origin.
Where must a negative charge q3 be placed on the x-axis so that the
resultant electric force on it is zero?
Solution:
The Electric Field, Electric Field Lines, Electric Flux and
Gauss’s Law
b)
c)
Capacitance, Combinations of Capacitors.