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Dr. W. Oko
Office: ABB-150
e-mail: okon@physics.mcmaster.ca
Office Hours: TBA
Course web page (all sections) Course Outline:
http://physwww.mcmaster.ca/PHYS1E03
Course web page I will be posting news and all lecture
notes here:
http://physwww.mcmaster.ca/~okon/1e03/1e03.html
Homework
Download and print the lecture notes in Power Point format from
the my web page. Bring the notes for class and add your own
notes to them during the lecture. Read the textbook, either just
before or just after the lecture, and add to your notes as you
read.
We will prepare a list of suggested problems from the textbook
(posted as a file, or at the end of lectures notes).
You can download and print these. As we cover the material
from the textbook you should also try to do the appropriate
questions from this list.
PHYSICS 1E03
I. Electrostatics
(4 weeks)
II. DC Circuits
III. Magnetism
(3 weeks)
Introduction
How do things interact?
1) Gravity
- a force between masses
- holds planets in orbit, etc.
2) Electromagnetism
- a force between charges
- responsible for all familiar forces (except
gravity) friction, normal, magnetic
3) Weak Nuclear Force
- decay of particles
4) Strong Nuclear Force
- holds nuclei together
Electric Charge
A scalar quantity
Comes in positive and negative
REPEL
F REPEL
ATTRACT
Units: coulomb, C
and also smallest unit of charge, e 1.60210-19 C
Charge
-e
+e
Quiz
The conductor is neutral
(no net charge). When a
charged rod is brought
close to it (without
touching) the net force on
the conductor will be:
A)
B)
C)
D)
attractive
repulsive
zero
it depends whether the rod
is positive or negative
-----Conductor
Coulombs Law
Point charges q1, q2 exert forces on each other:
q1
r
F
q2
r
F
12
21
r
qq
F k
r
r
1
12
(Coulombs constant)
Exercise:
Find the magnitude of the force between the
charges +10 C and -5 C separated by 20 cm.
Exercise:
L
GIVEN:
Identical Masses, m=1.0 gram
L
30 30
m
q
(equilibrium)
m
q
Equal charges q
L= 60 cm
FIND: q
Quiz:
L
m
2q
? L
(equilibrium)
m
q/2
q 40 C
4
300mm
400mm
q3 30 C
q1 10 C
Solution