TON DUC THANG UNIVERSITY

FACULTY OF ELECTRICAL AND

ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING

401064
ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD
CHAPTER 1: ELECTRIC FIELDS

Tran Hoang Quang Minh, PhD

Tran Dinh Cuong, ME
Phan Thanh Tai, ME

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 CHAPTER 1: ELECTRIC FIELDS

▪ 1.1 Properties of Electric Charges

▪ 1.2 Charging Objects by Induction
▪ 1.3 Coulomb’s Law
▪ 1.4 The Electric Field
▪ 1.5 Electric Field of a Continuous Charge
Distribution
▪ 1.6 Electric Field Lines
▪ 1.7 Motion of a Charged Particle in a Uniform
Electric Field

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 OBJECTIVES

▪ Describe some basic properties of one manifestation of

the electromagnetic force, the electric force.
▪ Discuss Coulomb’s law.
▪ Introduce the concept of an electric field associated with
a charge distribution and describe its effect on other
charged particles.
▪ How to use Coulomb’s law to calculate the electric field
for a given charge distribution.
▪ Discuss the motion of a charged particle in a uniform
electric field.

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 1.1 PROPERTIES OF ELECTRIC
CHARGES

Charges of the same

sign repel one
another and charges
with opposite signs
attract one another.

There are two kinds of electric

charges, which were given the
names positive and negative by
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) The electric charge q: q =± Ne
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 1.1 PROPERTIES OF ELECTRIC
CHARGES

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 1.1 PROPERTIES OF ELECTRIC
CHARGES

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 1.1 PROPERTIES OF ELECTRIC
CHARGES
Electrical conductors are charged in some small region,
materials in which some of the the charge readily distributes
electrons are free electrons itself over the entire surface of
and can move relatively freely the material
through the material

Charged by rubbing

Electrical insulators are only the area rubbed becomes

materials in which all charged and the charged
electrons are bound to atoms particles are unable to move to
and cannot move freely other regions of the material
through the material

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 1.2 CHARGING OBJECTS BY
INDUCTION
How to charge a conductor by a process
known as induction

Charging an object by induction requires no

contact with the object inducing the charge.
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 1.2 CHARGING OBJECTS BY
INDUCTION

Induction in insulators

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 1.3 COULOMB’S LAW

CHARLES COULOMB
French physicist (1736–1806)
Coulomb’s major contributions to
science were in the areas of
electrostatics and magnetism. During
his lifetime, he also investigated the
strengths of materials and determined
the forces that affect objects on
beams, thereby contributing to the field
of structural mechanics. In the field of
ergonomics, his research provided a
fundamental understanding of the
ways in which people and animals can
best do work.

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 1.3 COULOMB’S LAW
SCALAR VECTOR

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 1.3 COULOMB’S LAW

Coulomb’s law

Coulomb constant

permittivity of free space

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 1.4 THE ELECTRIC FIELD

The electric field vector E:

(2)

(3)
0

(1) (4)

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 1.4 THE ELECTRIC FIELD

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 1.5 ELECTRIC FIELD OF A CONTINUOUS
CHARGE DISTRIBUTION

dq
Electric Field of a Continuous E = ke  2 r
Charge Distribution r

1) Volume charge density: (C/m3) dq =  dV

2) Surface charge density: (C/m2) dq =  dA

3) Linear charge density: (C/m) dq =  dl

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 1.6 ELECTRIC FIELD LINES

The electric field lines for a point charge

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 1.6 ELECTRIC FIELD LINES

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 1.7 MOTION OF A CHARGED PARTICLE
IN A UNIFORM ELECTRIC FIELD

A particle of charge q and mass m:

The acceleration of the particle:

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 SUMMARY AND ASSIGNMENT

In this chapter, we have learnt:

▪ Some basic properties of the electromagnetic
force, the electric force.
▪ Coulomb’s law.
▪ Concept of an electric field.
▪ How to use Coulomb’s law to calculate the
electric field for a given charge distribution.
▪ The motion of a charged particle in a uniform
electric field.
•Assignments: Quick Quizzes 23.1-23.5.
•Reading assignment: [1] chapter 24 (pp. 673-685).
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 EXERCISES

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 EXERCISES

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 EXERCISES

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 EXERCISES

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 EXERCISES

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 EXERCISES

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 EXERCISES

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 EXERCISES

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