Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Scribe post FROM THE PAST (november 30)

Today, we started the unit on electric and magnetic fields by taking a look at Coulomb's Law. Coulomb's Law is simply a way to explain the force acting on one or more small charged objects called point charges by way of calculating the magnitude of the force (or forces) using the formula:



We were then assigned two sheets: one called Coulomb's Law for the sole purpose of better understanding the concepts of the new unit, and another titled Electrical Forces as practice applying this formula that we have definitely not seen in a similar form at any other point in our entire lives.