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Unit 10: Conductors and Capacitors
- Topic 10.3 Capacitors: define capacitance, derive it for parallel-plate, spherical and cylindrical geometries, and find the stored energy and series and parallel combinations.4Q&A pairs
- Topic 10.4 Dielectrics: explain how a dielectric increases capacitance and analyze the field, voltage and energy of a capacitor with a dielectric.2Q&A pairs
- Topic 10.1 Electrostatics with Conductors: describe the field, charge and potential of a conductor in electrostatic equilibrium using Gauss's law.2Q&A pairs
- Topic 10.2 Redistribution of Charge between Conductors: predict how charge redistributes when conductors are connected, using the equalisation of potential.2Q&A pairs
Unit 11: Electric Circuits
- Topic 11.5 Compound Direct Current Circuits: combine resistors in series and parallel to find equivalent resistance, currents and voltages in multi-resistor networks.2Q&A pairs
- Topic 11.1 Electric Current: define current as the rate of charge flow and relate it to drift velocity, current density and charge carriers.2Q&A pairs
- Topic 11.4 Electric Power: calculate the power delivered or dissipated in circuit elements using P = IV and its resistive forms.2Q&A pairs
- Topic 11.7 Kirchhoff's Junction Rule: apply the junction rule (charge conservation) and combine it with the loop rule to solve multi-loop circuits.2Q&A pairs
- Topic 11.6 Kirchhoff's Loop Rule: apply the loop rule (energy conservation) to write voltage equations for multi-loop circuits.2Q&A pairs
- Topic 11.3 Resistance, Resistivity, and Ohm's Law: relate resistance to resistivity and geometry, apply Ohm's law, and distinguish ohmic from non-ohmic behavior.2Q&A pairs
- Topic 11.8 Resistor-Capacitor (RC) Circuits: model the exponential charging and discharging of a capacitor through a resistor using the time constant.2Q&A pairs
- Topic 11.2 Simple Circuits: model a single-loop circuit with a source of EMF, internal resistance and a load, and find currents and voltages.2Q&A pairs
Unit 12: Magnetic Fields and Electromagnetism
- Topic 12.4 Ampere's Law: apply Ampere's law with a chosen Amperian loop to find the field of wires, solenoids and toroids.2Q&A pairs
- Topic 12.3 Magnetic Fields of Current-Carrying Wires and the Biot-Savart Law: use the Biot-Savart law to find the field of current elements, straight wires and loops.2Q&A pairs
- Topic 12.1 Magnetic Fields: describe magnetic fields, their sources in moving charges and magnets, field-line representation, and the absence of magnetic monopoles.2Q&A pairs
- Topic 12.2 Magnetism and Moving Charges: apply the magnetic force on moving charges and currents, including circular motion and the force on a wire.2Q&A pairs
Unit 13: Electromagnetic Induction
- Topic 13.6 Circuits with Capacitors and Inductors (LC Circuits): model the oscillation of charge and current in an LC circuit and the exchange of energy.2Q&A pairs
- Topic 13.5 Circuits with Resistors and Inductors (LR Circuits): model the exponential growth and decay of current in an LR circuit using the time constant.2Q&A pairs
- Topic 13.2 Electromagnetic Induction: apply Faraday's law and Lenz's law to find the magnitude and direction of an induced EMF.2Q&A pairs
- Topic 13.3 Induced Currents and Magnetic Forces: analyze the forces on induced currents, the energy and power in induction, and eddy-current effects.2Q&A pairs
- Topic 13.4 Inductance: define self-inductance, find the inductance and stored energy of a solenoid, and apply the back-EMF of an inductor.2Q&A pairs
- Topic 13.1 Magnetic Flux: define magnetic flux as the surface integral of the field and compute it for uniform and changing configurations.2Q&A pairs
Unit 8: Electric Charges, Fields, and Gauss's Law
- Topic 8.2 Conservation of Charge and the Process of Charging: apply conservation of charge to charging by friction, conduction and induction, and explain grounding and polarization.2Q&A pairs
- Topic 8.1 Electric Charge and Coulomb's Law: model the electrostatic force between point charges with Coulomb's law and add the forces from several charges as vectors.2Q&A pairs
- Topic 8.4 Electric Fields of Charge Distributions: set up and evaluate integrals to find the electric field of continuous charge distributions such as rods, rings and arcs.2Q&A pairs
- Topic 8.3 Electric Fields: define the electric field as force per unit charge, calculate the field of point charges, and represent fields with field lines.2Q&A pairs
- Topic 8.5 Electric Flux: define electric flux as the surface integral of the field and compute it for uniform and non-uniform fields through flat and closed surfaces.2Q&A pairs
- Topic 8.6 Gauss's Law: apply Gauss's law with a chosen Gaussian surface to find the field of spherically, cylindrically and planar-symmetric charge distributions.2Q&A pairs
Unit 9: Electric Potential
- Topic 9.3 Conservation of Electric Energy: apply conservation of energy to charges moving through potential differences, including charged particles accelerated by fields.2Q&A pairs
- Topic 9.1 Electric Potential Energy: relate electric potential energy to the work done by the electric force and compute it for point-charge systems.2Q&A pairs
- Topic 9.2 Electric Potential: relate potential to the field by line integral, find potential by superposition, and recover the field as the gradient of the potential.2Q&A pairs