More news…

More than two weeks left, and you can ask me… WHAT ABOUT GAUSS LAW?

Ya, you are right, I told you that within two weeks I would upload something about Gauss Law.

Now I feel that I have to tell you why I didn’t upload it until now. As you know, the language of Physics is Mathematics, and if I want to study and explain you something on Theoretical Physics I should understand well the mathematical tools behind a specific theory. In the last two weeks I concentrated my efforts in the mathematical tools needed for Electrostatics. This means that before presenting you anything about Gauss Law, I will upload a new section in the beginning of electrostatics chapter, where I will justify as rigorous as possible the mathematical tools needed for the chapter. I am preparing a document where I will present you the most important needed tools of Vector Analysis, and also a section where I will justify the use of the Dirac Delta Function. Then, after this, I will finally proceed to Gauss Law.

I really think that for theoretical physics we should use Mathematics as a tool, concentrating our efforts on physical problems, nevertheless we should not look at mathematical tools as a “black box”, and we should understand from where they came and how they can be related with physics. This can give us much more power . As you certainly know, a lot of mathematical fields grew with the purpose to explain physical phenomena. This is the reason why I decided to substantiate some needed tools for Electrostatics.

My idea is to repeat this procedure for all chapters, when needed. However, I admit that you have some basic knowledge on Real Analysis.

If you are interested in Real Analysis right know, you can CLICK HERE, and learn more about it.

Soon, you will have more news…

New Upload

After a week of hard work, I got few hours to dedicate myself to the blog and electrostatics stuff. Today I finished the first section of the Electrostatics chapter (Coulomb’s Law and Electric Field). I spent some more time in order to find a good pdf output format from my LaTeX template.

Now I will start with Gauss Law, and I hope to have news for you within two weeks.

I am also planing to introduce a section about Dirac Delta Function before electrostatics. As a matter of fact, Dirac Delta Function is very important for all electrodynamics (classical or not) and Theoretical Physics in general.

To download the first section of Electrostatics Chapter, click here or go through the Outline page.

Electrostatics

The first subject of our discussion about Classic Electrodynamics is Electrostatics. In science, electrostatics is the branch of physics that describe the phenomena arising from stationary or slowly moving electric charges. More specifically, it describes phenomena arising from time independent distribution of charge and fields.

Historically, electrostatics developed as the science that describes macroscopic observed phenomena. The assumption of point charges and electrical fields, are simply mathematical tools developed in order to study some phenomena at a macroscopic level. You can be curious to know what happen at a microscopic level, but now I will disappoint you, and postpone for later that discussion. If you are curious about that, you should wait until I start with quantum fields or fill free to search about that. There you will probably find the answers to your curiosity.

Click on the following link and download the pdf file. This file is under construction, but you can find what is done

Electrostatics