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Preface
The book is intended as a textb k f dents specializing in physics (i~ t~O f or undergraduate stuon general physics) It' c I e bramework of the course teachers. . . an a so e used by university TNhel~uthor is grateful to Prof. A.A. Detlaf . . \.aptsov who re' d I and Reader L numbet. of valuable VIewe t Ie manuscript and made a comments and sllg'gestions.
I. Irodov
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Preface ••.•••• List of Notations • . . .
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t. Electrostatic Field in a Vaeuum 1.1. Electric Field • • • . . . t,2. The Gauss Theorem . 1.3: Applications of the Gauss Theorem . . t,4. Differential Form of the Gauss Theorem 1.5. Circulation of Vector E. Potential . . . 1.6. Relation Between Potential and Vector E 1.7. Electric Dipole . • • . . . • •.......... Problems
2. A Condudor in an Electl'08tatic Field 2.1. Field in a Substance . . . . . . . • 2.2. Fields Inside and Outside a Conductor . . • 2.3. Forces Acting on the Surface of a Conductor 2.4. Properties of a Closed Conducting Shell . 2.5. General Problem of Electrostatics. Image Method 2.6. Capacitance. Capacitors problems •....•. 3. Eledm Field in Dielectrics • 3.1. Polarization of Dielectrics 3.2. Polarization 3.3. Properties of the Field of P 3.4. Vector D . . . . . . . . .3.5. Boundary Conditions . . . 3.6. Field in a HomogeneouS Dielectric •.•.• Problems 4. EIlt'TgY of Electric Field • . . . • • • • 4.1. Electric Energy of a System of Charges . . . . . , 4.2. Energies of a Charged Conductor and a Charged· Capacitor 4.3~ Energy of Electric Fidd . . . . . 4.4. A System of Two Charged Bodies 4.5. Forces Acting in a Diplectric •............ Problems
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