AP Physics C: Study Guide Ch.26

INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES: Upon completion of this unit, you should be able to:

• Recognize electric potential energy as the work done moving a charge to its position in an electric field
• Recognize the difference between electric potential energy and electric potential.
• Visualize equipotential surfaces around charged objects.
• Calculate the potential from the value of the electric field.
• Calculate the field from the potential.
• Use expressions for the potential due to symmetrical charge distributions to solve problems.
• Apply conservation of energy to systems involving electric potential and moving charged bodies
• Calculate the potential due to a system of point charges.
• Analyze the charge distribution on or within an isolated conductor.

  TIMETABLE

  Th 1/24	Electric potential energy, potential, equipotential surfaces
  F 1/25	Charge distributions, field to potential, potential to field
  M 1/28	Lab: Equipotential Surfaces
  T 1/29	Independent practice
  W 1/30	Recitation problems
  Th 1/31	Test: Chapter 26

  ASSIGNMENTS: Completion Date

  Lab: Potential ........................................................................................................... T 1/29

  Recitation problems .................................................................................................W 1/30

  Ch. 26 problems # 2, 4, 8, 9, 16, 32, 60, 67, 74, 76 ..................................................Th 1/31

  Test Ch 25 ............................................................................................................... .Th 1/31

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