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Yale University

Introduction to Electrostatics and Coulomb's Law - Lecture 1

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This course introduces electric charge and electrostatic force, comparing electricity with gravitation and using Coulomb’s Law and superposition to calculate forces from charge distributions.

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- Chapter 1. Review of Forces and Introduction to Electrostatic Force.
- Chapter 2. Coulomb's Law.
- Chapter 3. Conservation and Quantization of Charge.
- Chapter 4. Microscopic Understanding of Electrostatics.
- Chapter 5. Charge Distributions and the Principle of Superposition.

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