Electrostatics

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Electrostatics by Jasminder Jeet Singh

This book is for 10+2 science students and covers complete syllabus of electrostatics of CBSE, Punjab Board, Haryana Board and Himachal Board.  The different concepts are explained in a detailed way and by using a simple language.  Main stress is laid on diagrams, which are self explanatory and helps to explain the concept easily.

Syllabus (Contents of the book):

1) Electric Charges and Coulomb’s Law:

Electric Charges;  Conservation of charge, Coulomb’s law-force between two point charges, forces between multiple charges; superposition principle and continuous charge distribution.

2) Electric Field.

Electric field, electric field due to a point charge, electric field lines, electric dipole, electric field due to a dipole, torque on a dipole in uniform electric field.

3) Gauss Theorem.

Electric flux, statement of Gauss’s theorem and its applications to find field due to infinitely long straight wire, uniformly charged infinite plane sheet and uniformly charged thin spherical shell (field inside and outside).

4) Electrostatic Potential.

Electric potential, potential difference, electric potential due to a point charge, a dipole and system of charges; equipotential surfaces, electrical potential energy of a system of two point charges and of electric dipole in an electrostatic field.

5) Capacitors.

Conductors and insulators, free charges and bound charges inside a conductor.  Dielectrics and electric polarisation, capacitors and capacitance, combination of capacitors in series and in parallel, capacitance of a parallel plate capacitor with and without dielectric medium between the plates, energy stored in a capacitor.