Physics
High School (11–12)
Electricity & Magnetism › Electric Potential and CapacitanceChapter 16Contains Standard contentElectrostatic Potential and Capacitance
A camera flash stores energy in a capacitor and releases it in a blink. Behind it are potential, the energy a charge has in a field, and capacitance, how much charge a pair of conductors can hold. In this chapter you learn potential and equipotentials, what conductors and dielectrics do in a field, and how capacitors store, share and lose energy. Python finds the potential of many charges and charges a capacitor step by step.
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Electric Potential and Equipotentials
Energy of a charge in an electric field. Potential and potential difference, the potential of a point charge, a dipole and a group of charges, equipotential surfaces and how they relate to the field.
Conductors, Dielectrics and Capacitors
How materials respond to an electric field. Conductors and shielding, dielectrics and polarisation, the capacitor, capacitance, the parallel-plate capacitor and the effect of a dielectric slab.