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Physics 2415:  General Physics II

Michael Fowler, UVa

Lecture Notes:

Lecture 1:  Introducing Electrostatics

Lecture 2:  Coulomb’s Law, Superposition

Lecture 3:  Dipole Field, Infinite Line and Plane, Conductors

Lecture 4: Gauss’ Law

Lecture 5: Using Gauss’ Law: Spheres, Lines, Planes

Lecture 6:  Gravitational and Electrostatic Potentials, Point Charges

Lecture 7: Field Lines, Equipotentials, the Dipole

Lecture 8: Capacitance

Lecture  9: Energy in Capacitors

Lecture 10: Electric Charge and Current

Lecture 11: Drude's Derivation of Ohm's Law

Lecture 12: EMF, Series, Parallel, Kirchhoff's Laws

Lecture 13: Wheatstone bridge, RC Circuits,Flashing light.

Lecture 14: History, Earth's field, Seabed stripes, Force on current in field.

Lecture 15: Force on moving charge in magnetic field, Cyclotron, Van Allen belts.

Lecture 16: Torque on Current Loop, Meters, Motors, e/m, Hall Effect, Mass Spectrometer.

Lecture 22:  Mutual Inductance

Lecture 23:  LC, LR and LRC Circuits

Lecture 24: Circuits with AC Source

Lecture 25:  Waves

Lecture on light propagation and Young’s double slit experiment  New!

 

Spreadsheets:

Spreadsheet for AC  LCR Circuit.

Spreadsheet for Adding Two Sine Waves.

Spreadsheet to Sum Fourier Components.