"The equation F=ma is easy to memorize, hard to use,
and even more difficult to understand."
Charles W. Misner.
In the foreward to "Peer Instruction" by Eric Mazur (1997).
PHYSICS FOR ENGINEERS II
(PHY2044)
The topics you should study for TEST 1 include the following sections
from the textbook. However, you should understand that I may cover the
topics
in a different way and in a different order than appears in the textbook.
CHAPTER 21
21-1 Electrical Charge
21-2 Conductors and Insulators
21-3 Coulomb's Law
21-4 Electric Field
21-5 Electric Field Lines
21-6 Motion of Charges in an Electric Field
21-7 Electric Dipoles
CHAPTER 22
22-1 Calculating E using Coulomb's Law
22-2 Gauss's Law
22-3 Calculating E using Gauss's Law
22-5 Charge and Field at Surfaces
CHAPTER 23
23-1 Potential Difference
23-2 Potential due to a system of point charges
23-3 Computing the Electric Field from the Potential
23-4 Calculations of V for continuous charge distributions
23-5 Equipotential surfaces