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Chapter 19
Electric Charge
Insulators and Conductors
Coulombs Law
The Electric Field
Electric Field Lines
Shielding and Charging by Induction
Electric Flux and Gausss Law
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19-1 Electric Charge
The effects of electric charge were first
observed as static electricity:
If a conductor carries
excess charge, the
excess is distributed
over the surface of the
conductor.
A parallel-plate
capacitor consists of
two conducting plates
with equal and opposite
charges. Here is the
electric field:
Gausss law: