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8.6 ⋆ The Creation of the Elements . . . . . . . . . . . 502Creation of hydrogen <strong>and</strong> helium in the Big Bang, 502.—We arestardust, 503.Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5089 Circuits9.1 Current <strong>and</strong> Voltage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510Current, 510.—Circuits, 513.—Voltage, 514.—Resistance, 519.—Current-conducting properties of materials, 528.9.2 Parallel <strong>and</strong> Series Circuits . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532Schematics, 532.—Parallel resistances <strong>and</strong> the junction rule, 533.—Series resistances, 537.Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 544Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55210 Fields10.1 Fields of Force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557Why fields?, 558.—The gravitational field, 559.—The electric field,563.10.2 Voltage Related To Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567One dimension, 568.—Two or three dimensions, 571.10.3 Fields by Superposition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573Electric field of a continuous charge distribution, 573.—The fieldnear a charged surface, 579.10.4 Energy In Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 582Electric field energy, 582.—Gravitational field energy, 587.—Magneticfield energy, 587.10.5 LRC Circuits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589Capacitance <strong>and</strong> inductance, 589.—Oscillations, 593.—Voltage <strong>and</strong>current, 595.—Decay, 600.—Review of complex numbers, 603.—Euler’s formula, 605.—Impedance, 607.—Power, 610.—Impedancematching, 613.—Impedances in series <strong>and</strong> parallel, 615.10.6 Fields by Gauss’ Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617Gauss’ law, 617.—Additivity of flux, 621.—Zero flux from outsidecharges, 621.—Proof of Gauss’ theorem, 625.—Gauss’ law as afundamental law of physics, 625.—Applications, 626.10.7 Gauss’ Law In Differential Form . . . . . . . . . . 629Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 634Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64411 Electromagnetism11.1 More About the Magnetic Field . . . . . . . . . . . 647Magnetic forces, 647.—The magnetic field, 651.—Some applications,655.—No magnetic monopoles, 656.—Symmetry <strong>and</strong> h<strong>and</strong>edness,659.11.2 Magnetic Fields by Superposition . . . . . . . . . . 661Superposition of straight wires, 661.—Energy in the magnetic field,665.—Superposition of dipoles, 665.—The Biot-Savart law (optional),10 Contents

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