Terminology for Week 1

Quadrature Calculus pg. 258

the process of finding an area of a region with curved boundaries

Reimann Sums Calculus pg. 267

the approximating sums that occur in integration problems

Conductor University Physics pg. 673

a material or medium that electric charge can be transferred through

Insulator University Physics pg. 673

a material or medium in which no electric charge is transferred

Induction University Physics pg. 673

process in which one material gives another a charge of the opposite sign

Conservation of Charge University Physics pg. 671

the algebraic sum of all electric charges in any closed system is constant

Coulomb's Law University Physics pg. 675

the magnitude of the force of interaction between two point charges is directly proportional to the product of the charges and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them

Principle of Superposition University Physics pg. 622

when two charges exert forces simultaneously on a third charge, the total force acting on that charge is the vector sum of the forces that the two charges would exert individually

Electric Field Line University Physics pg. 689

an imaginary line drawn through a region of space so that at every point it is tangent to the direction of the electric field vector