6. Capacitors

For more information about Professor Shankar’s book based on the lectures from this course, Fundamentals of Physics: Mechanics, Relativity, and Thermodynamics, visit http://bit.ly/1jFIqNu.

Fundamentals of Physics, II (PHYS 201)

The electric potential is defined for the electric field. It is introduced as an integral of the electric field making the field the derivative of the potential. After discussing the ideas of electric potential and field as presented in the previous lecture, the concept of capacitance is introduced as a means of storing charge and energy.

00:00 – Chapter 1. Review of Electric Potential
15:52 – Chapter 2. Advantages of Electric Potential, V
43:31 – Chapter 3. Conductors as Equipotentials
61:46 – Chapter 4. Capacitors

This course was recorded in Spring 2010.