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Electrostatics
Effects in Everyday Life
 Electric & magnetic effects in every day life
 Electric phenomena may produce magnetic effects
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and magnetic phenomena may produce electric
effects
Electromagnetism
 Study of the effects of electric charges at rest or
in motion (Electromagnetic effects )
 Electromagnetic effects can be explained by
MWE
Electromagnetic interaction
 Only between those bodies or particles which
have a property called charge
 Types of interactions (strong, weak, tensile,
adhesive)
Definition of charge
Brief History of Electromagnetic effects
Brief History
Brief History
 900 BC – Greek shepherd ‘Magnus’ (a story about
Asia Minor-the region was called as Magnesia)
 The word magnet has come from Greek word
magnitis lithos meaning magnesian stone- later on
called as loadstone - Loadstone effect
 600 BC – Greek philosopher Thales (Discovered
another material called amber (from Greek word
elektron) which when rubbed with wool will attract
cat fur) – Amber effect
 370 BC – Plato (both amber effect and loadstone
effect are related with each other and of the same
type)
 120 AD – Plutarc (Load stone emits exhaltations
which pushes air)
 1100 AD – Chinese (magnetic needle pointing northsouth)
 1550 AD – Carden (amber and load stone do not
attract in the same way)
 1600 AD – Gilbert (Introduced science of magnetism
by experimentation) Introduction of other substances
that would attract when rubbed e.g., glass, sulphur,
wax crystals etc)
 1752 AD – Benjamin Franklin (Kite flying in thunder
storm)
 1780 AD – Galvani (idea of moving charges)
 1784 AD – Coulomb (measured the electric force)
 1792 AD– Volta introduced battery (copper & zinc
separated by material soaked in Brine solutioninvented battery)
 19th Century – Biot, Savart, Ampere, Oersted,
Faraday (relationship between electricity &
magnetism)
 1864 AD – Maxwell’s contribution & later Hertz
experimental evidence
 Charges residing on objects explain electrostatic
effects and dynamics of charges explain magnetic
effects
 Engineering Applications – Laser printer,
photocopying, Electrostatic paint spraying
Charge-the basic entity of
Electromagnetism
 Properties of charge
 Charge is quantized
 Charge is conserved
 Existence of two types of charges
 Plastic rod rubbed with wool----- -ve charge
 Glass rod rubbed with silk -------- +ve charge
COULOMB’S LAW
 Electrostatic force
 Qualitative analysis – Shifting of electrons is
responsible for electrostatics force
 The net charge of a body is represented by ‘q’
 Scalar quantity
 Units
 1 C= ------- electrons
 Quantitative analysis (measurement of
electrostatic force)
 In order to determine the nature of electrostatic
force, the magnitude and direction of electrostatic
force is required to be measured
 Experimental arrangements – Torsion balance
 Outcomes of the experiment
 Mathematical expression of Coulomb force
between two point charges
 Constant ‘K’
 Properties of Coulomb force
 Principle of linear superposition
 Significance of Coulomb’s law
 Vector form of Coulomb’s Law
 Example
 All Examples of Chapter 25 (H-R-K)
 Problems (25.1 – 25.13)
APPLICATIONS
Coulomb force by continuous
charge distribution
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many applications electric forces are
exerted by charged objects in the form of rods,
plates or solids
 Then how the Coulomb’s law can be applied?
 Procedure to determine Coulomb force
 Imagine the division of charge distribution into large
number of small charge elements
 Consider any one of the charge element
 Express the charge element in terms of charge
density & size of charge element
 Treating charge element as point charge and
determine the force element
 Determination of direction of force element
 Calculation of total force
 Applications
 Line of charge
 Ring of charge
 Disc of charge