Review of Basic Electrostatics

• Force between charges

• In terms of electric field

• Static electric field satisfies

• Charge density r(r)

  • for point charge q2:

• Electrostatic potential

  • zero curl implies E can be written
  • potential energy of charge q1 at r, relative to position at infinity

• Poisson’s equation

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