Electric Field Course
Gain mastery over electric fields from point charges, progressing to potentials, forces, and vector techniques. Practise units and energy concepts, then apply them to electrostatic sensors, spacecraft charging, and practical physics challenges in a South African context.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
certificate valid in your country
What will I learn?
This course offers a straightforward, hands-on route to mastering electric fields from point charges, covering coordinate systems, vector displacements, and Coulomb’s law application. Develop skills in combining field components, sidestepping unit and sign pitfalls, determining potentials and energies, and linking fields to forces and motion. Conclude with advanced topics on numerical techniques and electrostatic sensors, equipping you to handle complex problems confidently.
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Develop skills
- Compute electric fields from point charges using precise vector methods.
- Analyse charged particle motion with F = qE, Newton’s laws, and energy principles.
- Add electric field vectors by components, magnitude, and angle accurately.
- Calculate electric potential and U = qV for efficient problem solving.
- Explore research areas in electrostatic sensors, dust, and spacecraft plasma.
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