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Home > AP Courses and Exams > Course Home Pages > Charge, Field, and Potential Charge, Field, and Potential More About Electricity and Magnetism... Coulomb's Law and Field and Potential of Point Charges Fields and Potentials of Other Charge Distributions Gauss's Law and Electrostatics with Conductors Capacitors Dielectrics Current, Resistance, Power Steady-State Direct Current Circuits Capacitors in Circuits Forces on Moving Charges in Magnetic Fields Forces on Current-Carrying Wires in Magnetic Fields Wire Fields; Biot-Savart and Ampere's Law Electromagnetic Induction Inductance and Maxwell's Equations Demonstrations Each of the demonstrations includes a picture, description, suggestion of use, equipment needed, and the approximate setup time.   Electrostatic Attrac and Repuls   Van de Graaff -- Repulsion of Pie Pans   Van de Graaff -- Trained Rabbit   Induction -- Electroscope Lecture Notes and Tutorial Basic Electrostatics These notes from PhysicsLAB by Catherine H. Colwell contain detailed explanations of background material, annotated diagrams and illustrations, and solved examples.   Electrostatics Exploration Static Electricity A set of seven multimedia animations of electrostatic phenomena from Multimedia Physics Studio depict the movement of electrons and the accumulation of excess electric charge on various objects. Each animation includes a brief tutorial and interactive exercises.   Static Electricity See also... AP Physics Web Guide AP Physics B Course Home Page AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism Course Home Page AP Physics C: Mechanics Course Home Page Teachers' Resources

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