Electric dipole

Concept — System of two equal and opposite charges separated by a small distance.

Present in chapters

13 · 14

Linked atoms

10 linked atoms.

13 Forza di Coulomb ed elettrostatica

• Problem — Electric dipole
• Problem — Water jet deflected by a rod
• Problem — The comb and the paper
• Problem — Reading a graph: field of a dipole

14 Campo elettrico e potenziale

• Dipole and test charge
• Dipole in a uniform field
• Draw the equipotentials
• Worked example — electric dipole on the axis
• The electric dipole
• Field lines: the five rules