CHAPTER 19 : ELECTROSTATICS INTRODUCTION TO ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM The science of Electricity and Magnetism had its beginnings in the Greek Civilization. The characteristics of attraction between a Silk cloth (rubbed with glass rod) and amber rods (rubbed with cat's fur) and the repulsion between glass rods, each of which was rubbed with a silk cloth and the property of load stones to point in North-South directions were known to the Greeks. In this course, we begin from where the Greeks left to give a brief account of Maxwell's Synthesis of Electro-magnetism in the middle of the last century.
Two types of Electric charges, called positive and negative, are known to exist. The fact that like charges repel and the unlike charges attract is also familiar. The quantitative aspects of the attraction and repulsion are embodied in Coulomb's law based on experiments. |
Electricity and Magnetism 19.1 Coulomb's Law 19.2 Electrostatic Field 19.3 Gauss's Law 19.4 Capacitors Follow @Pinkmonkey_com  |