Syllabus Topics — Textbook Chapter Mapping
Physics: Electricity & Magnetism | Chapters 25–38
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# Syllabus Topic Chapter Title Relevant Sections
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Ch. Electric Charge and 25-2 Electric Charge 25-3
1 Electric charge
25 Coulomb's Law Conductors and Insulators
Ch. Electric Charge and
2 Coulombs law 25-4 Coulomb's Law
25 Coulomb's Law
26-1 What Is a Field? 26-2 The
Ch.
3 Electric field The Electric Field Electric Field 26-3 Electric Field of
26
Point Charges
Ch. 25-5 Continuous Charge Distributions
Continuous charge Electric Charge & The
4 25 & 26-4 Electric Field of Continuous
distributions Electric Field
26 Charge Distributions
Ch. Electric Charge and 25-3 Conductors and Insulators
5 Image charges
25 Coulomb's Law (method of images concept)
Ch. 26-7 A Dipole in an Electric Field 26-
6 Electric dipole The Electric Field
26 5 Electric Field Lines
27-4 Gauss's Law 27-5 Applications
Gauss's Law and its Ch. of Gauss's Law 27-6 Gauss's Law
7 Gauss' Law
applications 27 and Conductors 27-7 Experimental
Tests
28-3 Electric Potential 28-7
Ch. Electric Potential
8 Electric potential Calculating the Field from the
28 Energy and Potential
Potential 28-8 Equipotential Surfaces
29-1 Types of Materials 29-2
Electric properties Ch. The Electrical Conductor in Electric Field (Static)
9
of materials 29 Properties of Materials 29-3 Conductor in Electric Field
(Dynamic)
30-1 & 30-2 Capacitors &
1 Ch. Capacitance 30-3 Calculating
Capacitor, dielectric Capacitance
0 30 Capacitance 30-6 Capacitor with
Dielectric
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# Syllabus Topic Chapter Title Relevant Sections
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1 Capacitors in Ch. 30-4 Capacitors in Series and
Capacitance
1 circuits 30 Parallel
1 Energy stored in Ch. 30-5 Energy Storage in an Electric
Capacitance
2 capacitors 30 Field
1 Ch. 30-6 Capacitor with Dielectric
Electric polarization Capacitance
3 30 (polarization)
1 Gauss's Law for Ch. 30-6 Capacitor with Dielectric
Capacitance
4 dielectrics 30 (Gauss's Law in dielectric media)
Electric current, Ch. 29-4 Ohmic Materials 29-5 Ohm's
1 Electrical Properties /
current density and 29 & Law: A Microscopic View 31-1
5 DC Circuits
Ohm's law 31 Electric Current
1 Equation of Ch. 31-1 Electric Current (Continuity
DC Circuits
6 continuity 31 equation from current density)
31-2 Electromotive Force 31-3
1 DC circuits, Ch.
DC Circuits Analysis of Circuits 31-5 Resistors in
7 analysis of circuits 31
Series and Parallel
1 Electric fields in Ch.
DC Circuits 31-4 Electric Fields in Circuits
8 circuits 31
1 Resistance in Ch.
DC Circuits 31-5 Resistors in Series and Parallel
9 circuits 31
2 Energy transfers in Ch. 31-6 Energy Transfers in an Electric
DC Circuits
0 a circuit 31 Circuit
2 Ch.
RC circuits DC Circuits 31-7 RC Circuits
1 31
Magnetism, 32-1 Magnetic Interactions & Poles
2 Ch.
magnetic force on a The Magnetic Field 32-2 Magnetic Force on a Moving
2 32
charged particle Charge 32-3 Circulating Charges
2 Magnetic torque Ch.
The Magnetic Field 32-6 Torque on a Current Loop
3 due to currents 32
2 Magnetic dipole Ch. Magnetic Properties of 35-1 The Magnetic Dipole 35-2 Force
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# Syllabus Topic Chapter Title Relevant Sections
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4 35 Materials on a Dipole in Nonuniform Field
33-1 Magnetic Field due to a Moving
2 Biot-Savart Law Ch. The Magnetic Field of
Charge 33-2 The Magnetic Field of a
5 and its applications 33 a Current
Current 33-3 Two Parallel Currents
2 Ampere's law and Ch. The Magnetic Field of 33-5 Ampère's Law 33-4 Magnetic
6 its applications 33 a Current Field of a Solenoid
2 Gauss' law for Ch. Magnetic Properties of
35-7 Gauss's Law for Magnetism
7 magnetism 35 Materials
Origin of atomic
2 Ch. Magnetic Properties of
and nuclear 35-3 Atomic and Nuclear Magnetism
8 35 Materials
magnetism
2 Ch. Magnetic Properties of
Magnetization 35-4 Magnetization
9 35 Materials
Magnetic materials:
35-5 Magnetic Materials
3 diamagnetic, Ch. Magnetic Properties of
(Diamagnetic, Paramagnetic,
0 paramagnetic, 35 Materials
Ferromagnetic)
ferromagnetic
Induced magnetic
Maxwell's Equations 38-2 Induced Magnetic Fields and
3 fields and Ch.
and Electromagnetic Displacement Current 38-3 Maxwell's
1 displacement 38
Waves Equations
current