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Physics 132 - General
Physics II - Professor
Bunson
Fall 2001
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Today's Lecture (9/19): |
| Summary: |
- When we have two capacitors in parallel, the
voltage across them will be the same. This leads to a formula for
capacitors that says we can just add the capacitances if they are
all in parallel.
- If we have two capacitors in series in a circuit,
the charge will be the same for each. This results in the capacitors
adding as "inverses".
- If we want to know the electric field inside
a polarizable material rather than air, we need to multiply the permittivity
constant by a factor called the dielectric constant.
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| Conceptests: |
None today
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| Worked Problems: |
Today's
problem
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| Links: |
None today
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Assignments: |
Next
Reading Assignment (due 9/21)
Next
Homework (due 9/26)
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Diversion-of-the-week: |
This week's diversion should help with
studying for exams by teaching you tricks for remembering things.
One way to do this is via memory
pegs. These are words or pictures to which you can attach a memory.
(The trouble is remembering to use the pegs ;-) Poke around this website
for other good exam advise, too.
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