====== Chapter 12: Electrostatics ======
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This is a twelve chapter of the book Physics 12 published by Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board, Lahore, Pakistan.

After studying this chapter, the students will be able to:

  * Understand and describe Coulomb's law.
  * Describe that a charge has a field of force around it.
  * Understand fields of like and unlike charges.
  * Appreciate the principle of inkjet printers and photostat copier as an application of electrostatic phenomena.
  * Explain the electric intensity in a free and in other media.
  * State and prove Gauss's law.
  * Appreciate the applications of Gauss's law.
  * Explain electric potential at a point in terms of work done in bringing a unit positive charge from infinity to that point.
  * Relate electric field strength and potential gradient.
  * Find expression for potential at a point due to a point charge.
  * Describe and derive the value of electric charge by Millikan's method.
  * Calculate the capacitance of parallel plate
  * Recognize the effect of dielectric on the capacitance of parallel plate capacitor.
  * Understand and describe electric polarization of dielectric.
  * Know the process of charging and discharging of a capacitor through a resistance and calculate the time constant.
  * Find energy expression of a charged capacitor.

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