Foundation-Level Course
Instructor: Dr Mahdi Alavi
School of Technologies
Cardiff Metropolitan University
Winter 2021
Syllabus:
I taught a part of this course, which covers the following areas.
Charge
Atoms
Charged atoms (ions)
Conductors & Insulators
The law of conservation of charge
Coulomb’s law
Electrostatic forces
Electric force versus gravitational force
Superposition principle
Electric Field
The source of electrostatic forces
Superposition principle
Gauss’s law
Electric Flux
The statement of Gauss’s law
Computation of electric field using Gauss’s law
Electric Potential
Electric Potential Energy
Electric Potential
Electric potential difference or Voltage
Referencs:
PA Tipler, G. Mosca, “Physics for Scientists and Engineers,” 6th Edition, W. H. Freeman and Company, 2008.