Main Table of Contents

  0: Introduction
  1: Capacitors
  2: Interactive checkpoint: the fuel-cell car
  3: Gauss' law and the capacitance of a parallel-plate capacitor
  4: Physics at work: capacitors and computer keyboards
  5: Interactive problem: capacitor plate separation
  6: Determining the capacitance of a cylindrical capacitor
  7: Determining the capacitance of a spherical capacitor
  8: Interactive checkpoint: engineering the fuel-cell car
  9: Energy in capacitors
10: Interactive checkpoint: energy in a fuel-cell car
11: Derivation: a capacitor's electric potential energy
12: Interactive problem: You are Zeus
13: Capacitors and electric field energy density
14: Physics in medicine: defibrillator
15: An insulator (dielectric) in an electric field
16: Dielectrics
17: Sample problem: dielectric and potential difference
18: Interactive checkpoint: dielectric in a capacitor
19: Physics at work: commercial capacitors
20: Derivation: capacitance with a dielectric present
21: Sample problem: how big should a computer key be?
22: Gauss' law with dielectric material present
23: Gotchas
24: Summary

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