ELECTRIC CHARGES AND FIELDS
Electrostatics is the study of electric charges at rest.
Only electric field is associated with stationary charges.
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Electric charge (Scalar: SI Unit C)
Intrinsic property of elementary particles which
provides electric force between object
Basic properties of charges
A. Addivity 4" 9, 43
2. Quamtisation: = ne m= 0, £1, £2,
3. Conservation : Total charge ofan isolated
system remains constant
4. Like charges tepel and unlike charges attract.
5. Speed has no effect onthe charge of a body
Basie quantum of charge
1k the charge on an lacron or proton
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The fore of atraction of repulsion beeen two
atonary point changes separated by distance
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Peemitivity
Property of 4 medium which determines the
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Relative permittivity
“Ratlo of the force between two charges placed in
free space to the force between the some {#0
charges placed the same distance apart in a
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Principle of superposition of forces
‘The net force on a given charge is the vector of
the forces exerted on it eto all other charges.
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Electric field (Vector : SI unit NC)
Electrostatic force acting per unittest charge.
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“Plectric field of a point charge
At distance r from charge a,
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Superposition principle for electric fields
lectric field due to group of point charges is the
vector sum of the electric fields produced by
each charge individually atthe given point
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Electric dipole moment
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Electr lines of force
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They star fom +ve charges and end on
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Electric lux (Vector: SI unit Nm?C"?)
‘Total number of electric lines of force passing
normally through a given area, If0 isthe angle
‘between F and normal toarea element AS, then
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(Gaussian surface
‘Any hypothetical surface enclosing a charge.
‘Gauss’ theorem
Total electric flux through a closed surface 5 is,
equal to1/&g times the charge g enclosed by the
surface 5
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“Straight wite ofa linear charge density
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Electric field of an infinite plane sheet of charge
B=, a= surface charge density.
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