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1 Physics 2102 Gabriela González Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736-1806) Office hours: Nicholson 271-C, Tue 5:30-6:30pm , Th 5-6pm or by appt Phone: 578 0468 Email: [email protected] Research: Detection of Gravitational Waves ligo.org einsteinmessengers.org Gabriela González2 • 2102 Class website: www.phys.lsu.edu/classes/spring2011/phys2102/ • Our Section website: www.phys.lsu.edu/faculty/gonzalez/Teaching/Phys2102/ Schedule, grading policy, syllabus all posted here. Check both often!! • Lectures will be posted in our section’s website. • Textbook: Fundamentals of Physics, Halliday, Resnick, and Walker, 9th edition. We will cover chapters 21-38 in this class. You have access to the online textbook in WileyPlus.com • Exams: Two midterms: 6-7pm, Thursdays Feb 24 and Mar 31. Final Exam (cumulative): Wed May 11, 3-5pm Web-based system: WileyPlus.com To register, go to http://edugen.wiley.com/edugen/class/cls211589/ Notice that this is only for section 5! Email me ([email protected]) ASAP if you have any trouble. There will be one assignment per week, due Wed 2am (Tue late night) The first assignment is due Wed Jan 26, on Ch 21.3 Course grade is guaranteed to be at least as follows: Score Feb 24 exam (100 pts) Mar 31 exam (100 pts) Final Exam (150 points) Homework (25 points) • Electric charge • Electric force on other electric charges • Electric field, and electric potential • Moving electric charges : current • Electronic circuit components: batteries, resistors, capacitors • Electric currents • Magnetic field • Magnetic force on moving charges • Time-varying magnetic field • Electric Field • More circuit components: inductors • All together: Maxwell’s equations • Electromagnetic waves • Optical images • Matter waves4 • Two types of charges: positive/negative • Like charges repel • Opposite charges attract or or Coulomb’s law -- the force between point charges: • Lies along the line connecting the charges. • Is proportional to the magnitude of each charge. • Is inversely proportional to the distance squared. • Note that Newton’s third law says |F12| = |F21|!! Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736-1806)5 k = For charges in a VACUUM Often, we write k as: • Question: How do we figure out the force on a point charge due to many other point charges? • Answer: consider one pair at a time, calculate the force (a vector!) in each case using Coulomb’s Law and finally add all the vectors! (“superposition”) • Useful to look out for SYMMETRY to simplify calculations!6 • Three equal charges form an equilateral triangle of side 1.5 m as shown • Compute the force on q1 • What is the force on the other charges? d q1 d d q2 q3 q1= q2= q3= 20 µC Solution: Set up a coordinate system, compute vector sum of F12 and F13 d 1 2 3 d d y x α What is the force on central particle? Charge +q placed at center +q7 You connect these together with a metal wire; what is the final charge distribution? ? ? Total amount of charge in an isolated system is fixed (“conserved”) +1C -2C Example: 2 identical metal spheres have charges +1C and –2C. • Charge is always found in INTEGER multiples of the charge on an electron/proton ([[why?]]) • Electron charge = e = -1.6 x 10-19 Coulombs • Proton charge = p = +1.6 x 10-19 Coulombs • Unit of charge: Coulomb (C) in MKS units • One cannot ISOLATE FRACTIONAL CHARGE (e.g. -0.8 x 10-19 C, +1.9 x 10-19 C, etc.) [[but what about quarks…?]]8 • negative electron cloud • nucleus of positive protons, uncharged neutrons • Z = atomic number = # of protons = # of electrons in a neutral atom • A = mass number = # of protons (Z) + # of neutrons (N) • electron charge = e = -1.6 x 10-19 Coulombs = - proton charge • electron mass = 9.10938188 × 10-31 kilograms • proton mass = 1.67262158 × 10-27 kilograms = neutron mass • In a conductor, electrons move around freely, forming a “sea” of electrons. This is why metals conduct electricity. • Charges can be “induced” (moved around) in conductors. Blue background = mobile electrons Red circles = static positive charge (nuclei) - - + +9 • In an insulator, each electron cloud is tightly bound to the protons in a nucleus. Wood, glass, rubber. • Note that the electrons are not free to move throughout the lattice, but the electron cloud can “distort” locally. + - • An object can be given some “excess” charge: giving electrons to it (we give it negative charge) or taking electrons away (we “give” it positive charge). • How do we do charge an object? Usually, moving charges from one surface to another by adhesion (helped by friction), or by contact with other charged objects. • If a conductor, the whole electron sea redistributes itself. • If an insulator, the electrons stay where they are put.10 • Electric charges come with two signs: positive and negative. • Like charges repel, opposite charges attract, with a magnitude calculated from Coulomb’s law: F=kq1q2/r2 • Atoms have a positive nucleus and a negative “cloud”. • Electron clouds can combine and flow freely in conductors; are stuck to the nucleus in insulators. • We can charge objects by transferring charge, or by induction. • Electrical charge is conserved, and


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