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Potential and Potential Energy

Parallels with Gravity

• Potential Energy in a Uniform Field
• Potential Energy in a Non-uniform Field
• Equipotential Surfaces
• Potential in a Uniform Field
• Potential in a Non-uniform Field

Potential Energy and Potential

• Releasing Two Charges
• Sample Problem
• Accelerating a Charge Through a Potential Difference
• Connecting Potential to Force

Sample Problems

• A Charge and a Dipole
• A set of point charges
• A question

Electric Fields and Potentials

• Pre-lab assignment
• Laboratory Activity

Field and Potential

On-line Notes

• Potential Energy for Point Charges
• Conservation of Energy
• Potential Energy in a Uniform Field
• Electric Potential
• Equipotential Surfaces
• Potential and conductors

Electric Field near Conductors

• Question
• Field Near Conductors at Equilibrium
• Lessons from Gauss' Law
• Shielding
• Turning on a Field
• Potential and conductors