written by Steven J. Pollock and Stephanie Viola Chasteen
supported by the National Science Foundation
published by the Science Education Initiative

This is a collection of resources for teaching electrostatics constructed over the course of four semesters of a transformed junior-level Electricity and Magnetism course.  Included are homework questions, concept tests, student tutorials, lecture notes, and information about common student difficulties in the topic and ways to address these difficulties.

This material was developed as part of a education research-based course transformation for junior level E&M. All of the resources developed for this course are available, sorted by individual topic and type, at http://www.compadre.org/psrc/items/Relations.cfm?ID=7891.

• Download SEI-Electrostatics.pdf - 90kb Adobe PDF Document

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This archive file contains all the resource materials for the topics of Coulomb's law and electric fields.

• Download 1-Coulomb-Charge-E-field.zip - 2702kb Compressed File

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This archive file contains all the resource materials for the topic of Gauss' law.

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This archive file contains all the resource materials for the topic of electric potentials.

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This archive file contains all the resource materials for the topics of work and energy in charge distributions and electric fields.

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This archive file contains all the resource materials for the topics of the electrostatic properties of conductors and capacitors.

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This archive file contains all the resource materials for the topics of the Poisson and Laplace equations.

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This archive file contains all the resource materials for using the method of images for solving electrostatics problems.

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This archive file contains all the resource materials for using separation of variables to solve electrostatics problems.

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This archive file contains all the resource materials for using multipole expansions to solve electrostatics problems.

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