SEI: Junior E&M I Course Materials - Electrostatics Documents

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SEI: Junior E&M Course Materials - Electrostatics 

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.

Last Modified September 24, 2010

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Coulomb's Law, Charges, and Electric Fields 

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

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Published June 28, 2010
Last Modified February 24, 2016

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Gauss' Law and the Divergence of the Electric Field 

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

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Published June 28, 2010
Last Modified February 24, 2016

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Electric Potential and the Curl of the Electric Field 

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

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Published June 28, 2010
Last Modified February 24, 2016

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Work and Energy in Electrostatics 

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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Published June 28, 2010
Last Modified February 24, 2016

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Conductors and Capacitors 

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

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Published June 28, 2010
Last Modified February 24, 2016

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Poisson and Laplace Equations 

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

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Published June 28, 2010
Last Modified February 24, 2016

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Method of Images 

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

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Published June 28, 2010
Last Modified February 24, 2016

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Separation of Variables 

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

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Published June 28, 2010
Last Modified February 24, 2016

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Multipole Expansions 

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

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Published June 28, 2010
Last Modified February 24, 2016

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