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Electric Charge | p. 561 |
How can a video monitor in a surgical room increase the risk of bacterial contamination? | |
What Is Physics? | p. 562 |
Electric Charge | p. 562 |
Conductors and Insulators | p. 563 |
Coulomb's Law | p. 565 |
Charge Is Quantized | p. 571 |
Charge Is Conserved | p. 572 |
Review & Summary | p. 573 |
Questions | p. 573 |
Problems | p. 575 |
Electric Fields | p. 580 |
How does a bee use electrostatics to collect and then distribute pollen grains? | |
What Is Physics? | p. 581 |
The Electric Field | p. 581 |
Electric Field Lines | p. 582 |
The Electric Field Due to a Point Charge | p. 583 |
The Electric Field Due to an Electric Dipole | p. 585 |
The Electric Field Due to a Line of Charge | p. 586 |
The Electric Field Due to a Charged Disk | p. 590 |
A Point Charge in an Electric Field | p. 591 |
A Dipole in an Electric Field | p. 594 |
Review & Summary | p. 596 |
Questions | p. 597 |
Problems | p. 598 |
Gauss' Law | p. 605 |
How can lightning harm you even if it does not strike you? | |
What Is Physics? | p. 606 |
Flux | p. 606 |
Flux of an Electric Field | p. 607 |
Gauss' Law | p. 609 |
Gauss' Law and Coulomb's Law | p. 611 |
A Charged Isolated Conductor | p. 612 |
Applying Gauss' Law: Cylindrical Symmetry | p. 615 |
Applying Gauss' Law: Planar Symmetry | p. 616 |
Applying Gauss' Law: Spherical Symmetry | p. 618 |
Review & Summary | p. 620 |
Questions | p. 620 |
Problems | p. 621 |
Electric Potential | p. 628 |
What danger does a sweater pose to a computer? | |
What Is Physics? | p. 629 |
Electric Potential Energy | p. 629 |
Electric Potential | p. 630 |
Equipotential Surfaces | p. 632 |
Calculating the Potential from the Field | p. 633 |
Potential Due to a Point Charge | p. 635 |
Potential Due to a Group of Point Charges | p. 636 |
Potential Due to an Electric Dipole | p. 637 |
Potential Due to a Continuous Charge Distribution | p. 638 |
Calculating the Field from the Potential | p. 640 |
Electric Potential Energy of a System of Point Charges | p. 641 |
Potential of a Charged Isolated Conductor | p. 644 |
Review & Summary | p. 645 |
Questions | p. 646 |
Problems | p. 647 |
Capacitance | p. 656 |
How can a spark set up an explosion in airborne powder? | |
What Is Physics? | p. 657 |
Capacitance | p. 657 |
Calculating the Capacitance | p. 659 |
Capacitors in Parallel and in Series | p. 662 |
Energy Stored in an Electric Field | p. 666 |
Capacitor with a Dielectric | p. 670 |
Dielectrics: An Atomic View | p. 672 |
Dielectrics and Gauss' Law | p. 672 |
Review & Summary | p. 675 |
Questions | p. 675 |
Problems | p. 676 |
Current and Resistance | p. 682 |
What precautions should you take if caught outdoors during a lightning storm? | |
What Is Physics? | p. 683 |
Electric Current | p. 683 |
Current Density | p. 685 |
Resistance and Resistivity | p. 688 |
Ohm's Law | p. 692 |
A Microscopic View of Ohm's Law | p. 693 |
Power in Electric Circuits | p. 695 |
Semiconductors | p. 696 |
Superconductors | p. 697 |
Review & Summary | p. 698 |
Questions | p. 699 |
Problems | p. 700 |
Circuits | p. 705 |
How can a pit crew avoid a fire while fueling a charged race car? | |
What Is Physics? | p. 706 |
"Pumping" Charges | p. 706 |
Work, Energy, and Emf | p. 707 |
Calculating the Current in a Single-Loop Circuit | p. 708 |
Other Single-Loop Circuits | p. 710 |
Potential Difference Between Two Points | p. 711 |
Multiloop Circuits | p. 714 |
The Ammeter and the Voltmeter | p. 720 |
RC Circuits | p. 720 |
Review & Summary | p. 724 |
Questions | p. 725 |
Problems | p. 726 |
Magnetic Fields | p. 735 |
What causes an aurora and why is it so thin? | |
What Is Physics? | p. 736 |
What Produces a Magnetic Field? | p. 736 |
The Definition of B | p. 736 |
Crossed Fields: Discovery of the Electron | p. 740 |
Crossed Fields: The Hall Effect | p. 741 |
A Circulating Charged Particle | p. 743 |
Cyclotrons and Synchrotrons | p. 748 |
Magnetic Force on a Current-Carrying Wire | p. 750 |
Torque on a Current Loop | p. 752 |
The Magnetic Dipole Moment | p. 754 |
Review & Summary | p. 755 |
Questions | p. 756 |
Problems | p. 757 |
Magnetic Fields Due to Currents | p. 764 |
How can the human brain produce a detectable magnetic field without any magnetic material? | |
What Is Physics? | p. 765 |
Calculating the Magnetic Field Due to a Current | p. 765 |
Force Between Two Parallel Currents | p. 771 |
Ampere's Law | p. 772 |
Solenoids and Toroids | p. 776 |
A Current-Carrying Coil as a Magnetic Dipole | p. 778 |
Review & Summary | p. 780 |
Questions | p. 781 |
Problems | p. 782 |
Induction and Inductance | p. 791 |
How can magnetic induction melt metal in a foundry? | |
What Is Physics? | p. 792 |
Two Experiments | p. 792 |
Faraday's Law of Induction | p. 793 |
Lenz's Law | p. 795 |
Induction and Energy Transfers | p. 798 |
Induced Electric Fields | p. 801 |
Inductors and Inductance | p. 805 |
Self-Induction | p. 806 |
RL Circuits | p. 807 |
Energy Stored in a Magnetic Field | p. 810 |
Energy Density of a Magnetic Field | p. 812 |
Mutual Induction | p. 814 |
Review & Summary | p. 816 |
Questions | p. 816 |
Problems | p. 818 |
Electromagnetic Oscillations and Alternating Current | p. 826 |
How did a solar eruption knock out the power-grid system of Quebec? | |
What Is Physics? | p. 827 |
LC Oscillations, Qualitatively | p. 827 |
The Electrical-Mechanical Analogy | p. 830 |
LC Oscillations, Quantitatively | p. 831 |
Damped Oscillations in an RLC Circuit | p. 834 |
Alternating Current | p. 835 |
Forced Oscillations | p. 835 |
Three Simple Circuits | p. 837 |
The Series RLC Circuit | p. 842 |
Power in Alternating-Current Circuits | p. 846 |
Transformers | p. 849 |
Review & Summary | p. 853 |
Questions | p. 854 |
Problems | p. 855 |
Maxwell's Equations; Magnetism of Matter | p. 861 |
How can a mural painting record the direction of Earth's magnetic field? | |
What Is Physics? | p. 862 |
Gauss' Law for Magnetic Fields | p. 862 |
Induced Magnetic Fields | p. 864 |
Displacement Current | p. 866 |
Maxwell's Equations | p. 868 |
Magnets | p. 869 |
Magnetism and Electrons | p. 870 |
Magnetic Materials | p. 874 |
Diamagnetism | p. 874 |
Paramagnetism | p. 876 |
Ferromagnetism | p. 877 |
Review & Summary | p. 881 |
Questions | p. 882 |
Problems | p. 883 |
Appendices | p. A-1 |
The International System of Units (SI) | p. A-1 |
Some Fundamental Constants of Physics | p. A-3 |
Some Astronomical Data | p. A-4 |
Conversion Factors | p. A-5 |
Mathematical Formulas | p. A-9 |
Properties of the Elements | p. A-12 |
Periodic Table of the Elements | p. A-15 |
Answers to Checkpoints and Odd-Numbered Questions and Problems | p. AN-1 |
Index | p. I-1 |
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