Page 2 - Electrostatics 11

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Electrostatics Grade 11

GC Shiba

Electricity and Magnetism ( 27 teaching hours)

• Electric charge, conductors and insulators, Charging by induction,
Coulomb's law - Force between two-point charges, Force between multiple
electric charges (3 hrs)

• Electric fields, Calculation of electric field due to point charges, Field lines,

Gauss law, Electric flux, Gauss law and its application, field of a charged
sphere, line charge, charge plane conductor (3 hrs)

• Electric potential, potential difference, potential due to a point charge,
equipotential lines and surfaces, potential gradient, potential energy, electron
volt (4 hrs)

• Capacitance and dielectrics: Capacitance and capacitor, parallel plate
capacitor, combination of capacitors, energy of charged capacitor, effect of

a dielectric, polarization and displacement (7 hrs)

• DC Circuits: Electric Currents; Drift velocity and its relation with current,

Ohm’s law; Electrical Resistance; Resistivity; Conductivity, Current-

voltage relations; Ohmic and Non-Ohmic resistance, Resistances in series

and parallel, Potential divider, Electromotive force of a source, internal

resistance, Work and power in electrical circuits (10 hrs)

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