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Lecture: 2 Sec 14.1-14.4

1. More review on vectors.

2. Coulomb’s law for point changes.

3. Electric field:

a. Coulomb’s law: A causal description.

b. Spider-fly analogy: Source, field, test charge.

c. Electric influence: F=qE, where E is the electric field.

4. When the source charge is a spherically symmetric charge distribution. Read.

Class Announcements:

a. Read the remainder of Chapter 14.

b. Work on ch14-h1. Look at ch 14-h2, h3.