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Charge, Coulomb's Law, and Electric Field

Charge

• Experiments
• Charging an Object

Conductors and insulators

• An electroscope
• Charging a conductor
• Charging by Induction

Benjamin Franklin

• Benjamin Franklin
• Benjamin Franklin and Electrostatics (at Tufts)
• The Electric Ben Franklin
• Ben Franklin on PBS

Coulomb's Law

• Force between Charges
• 2-D Examples

Field

• What is a Field?
• Field Lines and Field Vectors
• A Test Charge
• A Dipole
• Field Lines
• Field Vectors

Finding the Field using Vector Addition

• Where is the Field Zero?

Graphs