What is Electrostatics?
Electrostatics is the branch of physics concerned with the study of electrostatic charges and the forces and interactions between them. The focus is on understanding the behaviour of fixed charges and their effects on surrounding objects.
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Table of Content
1. Electric charge.
2. Comparison of charge and mass.
3. Methods of charging.
4. Electroscope.
5. Coulombs law.
6. Electric field.
7. Electric potential and potential difference.
8. Potential due to concentric spheres.
9. Electric lines of force and equipotential surface.
10. Relation between electric field and potential.
11. Work done in displacing a charge.
12. Conservation of electric field.
13. Equilibrium of charge.
14. Oscillation of charged body.
15. Neutral point.
16. Zero potential due to a system of two charges.
17. Electrostatic potential energy (E.P.E.).
18. Motion of charged particle in electric field.
19. Force on charged conductor.
20. Equilibrium of charged soap bubble.
21. Electric dipole.
22. Electric flux.
23. Gauss’s law.
24. Application of Gauss’s law.