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: Interactive checkpoint: engineering the fuel-cell car
  7: Energy in capacitors
  8: Interactive checkpoint: energy in a fuel-cell car
  9: Interactive problem: You are Zeus
10: Capacitors and electric field energy density optional
11: Physics in medicine: defibrillator
12: An insulator (dielectric) in an electric field
13: Dielectrics
14: Sample problem: dielectric and potential difference
15: Interactive checkpoint: dielectric in a capacitor
16: Physics at work: commercial capacitors
17: Derivation: capacitance with a dielectric present optional
18: Sample problem: how big should a computer key be?
19: Gotchas
20: Summary

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