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The field of a sphere of charge is the same as if it were all concentrated at the centre and modelled
as a point charge.
Dipoles
In a uniform field
o A point charge moves with constant acceleration
o A dipole rotates until it is aligned with the field
o NOTE DIPOLES HAVE NO NET FORCE IN UNIFORM FIELD BUT DO ROTATE FROM
FIELD
In a non-uniform field
o Dipole moves toward region of
higher field strength.
If numerous closed shapes enclose a net charge, the flux through all shapes is equal.
For Gauss Law to be effective need symmetry e.g. A surface over which the electric field is
constant. SYMMETRY OF FIELD MUST MATCH SYMMETRY OF OBJECT.
Note: flux is independent of radius and surface shape
ELECTRIC POTENTIAL
Energy of a SYSTEM not just one particle is given as (Note: +ve for
like charges, -ve for opposite)
Electric potential inside a parallel plate capacitor (s is distance from negative plate)
NOTE AT NEGATIVE PLATE THERE CAN STILL BE CHARGE ONLY THE DIFFERENCE MATTERS
Electric potential of a point charge (where q is the point and q is the other charge) can be
modelled as
Electric Potential of a charged sphere (R is radius of sphere and r is distance away from
surface, V0 is potential sphere is charged too.)
Electric potential and electric field are two different ways of thinking about how source
charges affect space around them.
Potential Energy is defined as work done by a force F on charge q as it moves from position
i to position f.
Can also think of potential energy as Vf=Vi (are under Es & s curve, see below)
If force and direction of motion are orthogonal there is no work done on the object
With two spheres the one with the larger radius will therefore have the lowest electric
potential
to
CAPACITORS
When charged by at a battery the charge on capacitor slowly approaches battery charge
This means that the positive capacitor plate has same charge as positive battery terminal
and vice versa
IN SERIES CAPACITORS:
PARALLEL CAPACITORS:
NOTE SUM OF ALL POTENTIAL DIFFERENCES AROUND A CLOSED PATH IS ZERO
Electron current is
Electric field pushes the current
Current is the rate at which charge flows
Current per square metre of cross section or current density is given by
Electric field points in direction of current (From higher potential to lower potential).
Light bulbs will have the same brightness whether in series or parallel, only current differs.
Magnetism
Superposition holds
Amperes Law is used to calculate the magnetic field created by wires and other objects as
Magnetic field can exert force on current carrying wire and hence charge.
As said before magnetic fields can have forces on current carrying wires
Parallel wires also exert magnetic field on each other creating relationship
Current loop is much like a magnetic dipole so it can be seen that they will act like magnets
when near each other.
For loops to calculate torque we use the right hand rule where
pointing finger is B and the field created by the loop (current
carrying wire) is the thumb. In this example the torque is up and is
out of the page.
Electromagnetic Induction
You can induce a current by changing size or orientation of circuit in stationary magnetic field OR
changing magnetic field through stationary current
Motion through magnetic field creates a potential difference
This motion creates an electric field to balance the forces (see above)
From this It can be seen a current may be induced in a circuit, using right
hand rule and fact that current runs from positive to negative (like in figure
to the right) then we can find direction and magnitude using
In order for sliding wire to work and have constant velocity we must
realise that pulling force is present and is equal to the magnetic force
and means a force must be applied to pull the loop out of the
the magnetic field.
The induced emf created by this changing flux is given by Faradays Law (-ve because opposes
the change of magnetic flux)
Transformers
We can then find the potential difference across this using faradays law such that
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Faradays Law: An electric field and thus an emf can be created by a changing magnetic field
Ampere Maxwell Law (note this is a correction to the previous Amperes Law): Current
creates a magnetic field and magnetic flux is also a magnetic field so, B through a surface is
The lorentz force law describes how magnetic and electric fields effect a moving particle
In Summary!
Electromagnetic waves have an intensity, which is the average energy transfer. Intensity is
It follows that radiation pressure has an effect on an object, with pressure being
OPTICS
Travelling Waves
Wave source that oscillates with simple harmonic motion generates a sinusoidal wave
Period of this wave is called, T
Wavelenght in material is
Doppler Effect
For light waves if we calculate the wavelength from above we find that a receding
source has a red shift while an approaching source has a blue shift.
Superposition
For sources with no phase shit max constructive and perfect destructive occur at
and
) respectively
This is used in the real world for thin film coating on glasses (see example)
THESE TWO ONLY APPLY IF WAVES ARE IN PHASE OTHERWISE USE PREVIOUS TWO
Wave Optics
Ray Optics
Power can also be written as (noting that nin is the concave side and nout is the convex)
With a microscope this can be improved on even more so that we have a magnification
Telescopes are another useful optical aperture with their magnification given by
In magnification there is still diffraction (occurs passing through hole of any shape) as
the ray model of light is not complete
This means there is a central maximum, meaning there is a minimum spot size able to be
projected
RELATIVITY
Reference Frames are the main concept to understand, once understood relativity
should be easy, they can be said to
o Extend infinitely in all directions
o Experimenters are at rest in the frame
o Velocity and distance is measured accurately from this frame
Often said that the time interval between two ticks is the shortest in the reference frame
where the clock is at rest.
Considering twin paradox, both twins think they will have the younger sibling.
But this is not true as theory of relativity only holds in inertial reference frames and
the second sibling goes there and back so person on earth would be older
Length contraction also occurs given by relationship. Where is the proper length of
object
Can use the spacetime interval to compare events in all inertial reference frames as
it is the same in all intervals
From this we can see that it is impossible for an object to go faster than the speed of
light as more and more energy is required to accelerate and object and an infinite
amount of energy is required to accelerate an object to the speed of light.
It follows that an object has a rest energy and a kinetic energy of total
Note mass is not conserved, consider two colliding clay balls at same speed, if they collide
and mould there will be no velocity and due to conservations of energy
( )
So mass and energy can be transferred but are NOT the same thing (think of fission).
Skipped most of End of Classical Physics Chapter but a few useful things
Quantization
This shows that a minimum energy is required to free an electron from a metal such that
We can consider the voltage required to stop an electron freed from the cathode as it
approaches the anode to be
However this classical interpretation does not account for a threshold frequency
Einstein saw this and created his model that accounts for a threshold frequency
EINSTEINS EXPLANATION
Einstein states that light arrives in light packets, called a Light Quantam, and each light
quantam has energy
Think of rain analogy, generally water flows like light, but with rain we get it in drops. The
difference is intensity e.g intense energy is lots of rain or lots of light
IF this
where E0 is the energy required to remove an electron, then the
electron leaves the metal becoming a photoelectron.
If the frequency is less than this threshold frequency, even for high intensity light no
electrons will be ejected
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It was postulated by De Broglie that matter can have a wave like nature
De Broglie then found that the wavelength of matter with momentum
This means that matter undergoes interference like double slit experiment
This means that energy of a confined particle is quantised e.g. has certain energies
Can rewrite this as
3. Each of these states has a certain energy level En where E1< E2< E3< E4.
4. Ground state E1 is stable and will always exist, other states may not, called excited
states
5. Atom can jump from one state to the other by absorbing or emitting a photon
Main additions to the Rutherford model are atoms can only exist at certain states
and that atoms can jump from one state to another by absorbing just the right
frequencies such that energy is conserved.
Matter is stable
Atoms only emit certain spectra due to the set frequency and energy levels
Spectra can be produced by collisions such as experiment at beginning of chapter
This causes only certain wavelengths to be seen in spectra (suns show certain
colours)
5. This means each element has a certain spectra
Note that the energies of the stationary states are negative as energy is required to
keep the proton and electron near each other, e.g. it would take 13.60eV of energy
to remove electron from ground state, hence E is called the ionisation energy
It follows that electron must also have a certain momentum of
We can find the wavelength emitted by a hydrogen atom when the state is altered
It turns out these formulas work for all hydrogen-like ions in which there is one
electron and there is an atomic number Z (He has Z=2, Li has Z=3)
Now we need to make an assumption that there is a continuous wave function for
matter that is analogous for that of an electromagnetic amplitude function
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Only real difference here is that (x) is for particles and A(x) is for photons
From this we can realise that the position of an atomic size particle is not well
defined, however the function (x) defines it, it is like with x(t) in classical physics
Should be noted the particle has a 100% chance of hitting somewhere.
Can split up the place we are observing into many different slits to form an equation
for the number of photons that will hit the area
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It is interesting as you cannot define exactly when the wave packet arrives at a point
(would you consider the front or centre)
Because spread out over time you cannot say, therefore known formula is lower
limit and it is actually better to say
Matter has wave like characteristics so this equation must apply to matter also.
Time interval is duration of wave packet as it passes a point
This leads us to the conclusion that the position and momentum of a particle cannot
be known for certain with the statement
EQUATIONS
ELECTRICS
Coulombs Law
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Electric Flux
Gausss Law
Potential Energy
Battery Potential Energy
Electric Potential from Field
Charge on Capacitor
Capacitor in Series
Capacitor in Parallel
Electron current
Current Density
Field Strength in Wire
Resistivity & Conductivity
Resistance
Power of Battery
Energy of battery
MAGNETISM
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Amperes Law
Magnetic field through solenoid
Magnetic field force on moving particle
Cyclotron Motion
Force on current carrying wires
Force on parallel wires
Torque
Motional emf
Induced current in a wire
Magnetic flux
Faradays Law (induced emf by changing flux)
Faradays Law alternative
(for induced electric field)
Emf in generator
Inductance
Potential difference across an inductor
Ampere-Maxwell Law
IMPORTANT EQUATIONS
OPTICS
Velocity of wave
Wavelength of wave
Displacement of a wave at time zero in one
dimension
Wave number
Displacement of wave at any time
Index of refraction
Wavelength in material
Doppler Effect for source approaching person
Doppler Effect for source receding from person
Doppler effect for person approaching source
Diffraction Grating
Vergences
Focal Point
Mirror Equation
Mirror Vergence
Lens Vergence
Power in air
Angular size of unaided eye
Angular size of object with lens
Angular Magnification
Microscope magnification
Light gathering power
Telescope Magnification
Central maximum
Minimum central maximum
Rayleighs Criterion
(minimum resolution of a lens)
X-ray reflection
RELATIVITY
Time Dilation
Length Contraction
Spacetime Interval
Lorentz Transforms
Relativistic motion
Relativistic energy
MODERN PHYSICS
Classical Photoelectric effect
Energy of a photon
Einstein Stopping Potential
Photon Power
De Broglie Wavelength
Energy of confined particle
Hydrogen Atom radii
Hydrogen Atom electron velocity
Hydrogen Atom Ionisation Energy
Hydrogen Electron Angular Momentum
Wavelength emitted in hydrogen atom
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