Week 2 Lec 2 Phy

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PHY-Physics
Week-2 Lecture-2
Semester- Fall 2018
Prepared by:

Muhammad Ammar Hassan


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Overview of previous lecture

 Electric Field
 Electric Field Lines

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Preamble

 Electric Field due to point charge


 Electric field due to an electric dipole

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Electric Fields due to point charge

k |q|
| E |= 2
R

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Electric Field of a dipole

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 Electric dipole: two point charges +q and –q separated by a distance d


 Common arrangement in Nature: molecules, antennae, …
 Note axial or cylindrical symmetry
 Define “dipole moment” vector p: from –q to +q, with magnitude qd

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Lecture Outcomes

• Electric field of a point charge: E=kq/r2


• Electric field of a dipole: E~kp/r3

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Q&A

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References

These lecture notes were made from following source:

 Fundamentals of Physics, 10th edition, by Resnick, Halliday and Walker

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