Week 3: Electric Charge, Electric Potential, and Electric Field
Learning Objectives for this Week
After going through this unit activities carefully, you should be able to
- Describe static electricity.
- Explain conductors and insulators.
- State Coulomb’s law.
- Calculate electrostatic force between two charges.
- Describe electric field.
- Define electric potential and electric potential energy.
- Solve problems involving electrostatic terms.
Styrofoam peanuts clinging to a cat’s fur due to static electricity.
Image credit: Sean McGrath. (2006). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cat_demonstrating_static_cling_with_styrofoam_peanuts.jpg
