3. Electric Potential

Chapters (Serway & Jewett, Physics 9ed):

• 25.1 Electric Potential and Potential Difference
• 25.2 Potential Difference in a Uniform Electric Field
• 25.3 Electric Potential and Potential Energy Due to Point Charges
• 25.4 Obtaining the Value of the Electric Field from the Electric Potential
• 25.5 Electric Potential Due to Continuous Charge Distributions
• 25.6 Electric Potential Due to a Charged Conductor
• 25.7 The Millikan Oil-Drop Experiment
• 25.8 Applications of Electrostatics

Videos:

• Yale: Physics II, Electric Potential and Conservation of Energy

• MIT: 8.02x, Electrostatic Potential, Electric Energy, Equipotential Surfaces

• Tyler DeWitt: The Millikan Oil-Drop Experiment

• KhanAcademy: Electrostatic potential, potential energy, and work done
• KhanAcademy: Electric potential conceptual problems
• KhanAcademy: Potential due to a point charge
• KhanAcademy: Potential energy of a system of charges
• KhanAcademy: Equipotential surfaces
• KhanAcademy: Relation between field & potential
• KhanAcademy: Electrostatics of conductors

Optional Videos:

• MIT: 8.02x, E= - grad V, Conductors, Electrostatic Shielding (Faraday Cage)
• MIT: 8.02x, High-voltage Breakdown, Lightning, Sparks, St-Elmo's Fire

Exercise Videos:

• Michel van Biezen: Electrical Potential

• MIT: 8.02x, Conducting Spherical Shell with a Point Charge at the Center
• MIT: 8.02x, Calculating the Potential of a Semi circular Rod by Integration
• MIT: 8.02x, The Electric Field and Potential of Cylindrical Shells Carrying Charge
• MIT: 8.02x, Two Metal Spheres Far Apart at the same Potential
• MIT: 8.02x, The Potential of Two Opposite Charges