Electrostatic Potential and Capacitance

1. Concept Overview / Statement of the Law Gauss’s Law is one of the four fundamental Maxwell’s equations. It connects…

1. Concept Overview A line charge is a long, thin wire or rod on which charge is uniformly distributed. If

1. Concept Overview A uniformly charged spherical shell is a hollow sphere whose entire charge [Q] is spread uniformly over

1. Concept Overview Every conductor can store electric charge. However, the amount of charge it can hold depends on how

1. Concept Overview / Statement of the Concept A capacitor is a device that stores electric charge and electrical energy.

1. Concept Overview A parallel plate capacitor is the simplest and most widely studied form of a capacitor. It consists

1. Concept Overview A spherical capacitor is a capacitor formed by two concentric spherical conductors— an inner sphere of radius

1. Concept Overview When capacitors are connected in series, the reciprocal of the equivalent capacitance is equal to the sum