PHYS102

ENGINEERING PHYSICS II

DR. BARAN USLU

COURSE OBJECTIVES

• Students should become proficient in the topics of electricity and magnetism

and be able to apply the basic laws of electricity and magnetism to solve
simple problems concerning the motion and distribution of charges.
COURSE CONTENT AND WEEKLY TOPICS
TEXTBOOK AND ASSESSMENT
SYSTEM
MATERIALS AND ELECTRICAL
CHARGE
• The atom somewhat resembles the Solar System, with the nucleus as Sun and the
electrons as planets.
• In the Solar System, the force that holds a planet near the Sun is the gravitational
force.

What is the force that holds an electron near the nucleus?

This is the electric force of attraction between the electron and the protons in the
nuclues.
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TOPIC-1
MATERIALS AND ELECTRICAL CHARGE
POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE ELECTRIC
CHARGES
Positive and Negative Charges
INDUCED CHARGE
COULOMB’S LAW
COULOMB’S LAW
ELECTRIC FIELD
EXAMPLE
SOLUTION
ELECTRIC FIELD LINES
ELECTRIC FIELD LINES
The electric field inside a conductor is zero in the
static situation—that is, when the charges are at
rest. If there were an electric field within a
conductor, there would be a force on the free
electrons. The electrons would move until they
reached positions where the electric field, and
therefore the electric force on them, would
become zero.

A related property of static electric fields and conductors

is that the electric field is always perpendicular to the
surface outside o f a conductor. If there were a
component of E parallel to the surface (Fig. 21-37), it
would exert a force on free electrons at the surface,
causing the electrons to move along the surface until
they reached positions where no net force was exerted
on them parallel to the surface—that is, until the electric
field was perpendicular to the surface.