Main Table of Contents

  0: Introduction
  1: Capacitors
  2: Interactive checkpoint: the fuel-cell car
  3: Physics at work: capacitors and computer keyboards
  4: Energy in capacitors
  5: Interactive checkpoint: energy in a fuel-cell car
  6: Physics in medicine: defibrillator
  7: An insulator (dielectric) in an electric field optional
  8: Dielectrics optional
  9: Sample problem: dielectric and potential difference optional
10: Interactive checkpoint: dielectric in a capacitor optional
11: Physics at work: commercial capacitors optional
12: Gotchas
13: Summary

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