Chapter 15 - Electrostatics

The Fundamental Origin of Forces
The atomic nature of matter
The boson exchange model
Electron-positron pair creation and anihilation
The electron as a time traveler
Mach's principle
Quantum statistics
Tom Stoppard's Arcadia

The Coulomb Interaction
Electromagnetic vs gravitational
Adding forces
Example 1
Example 2

Fields due to Multipole Distributions
End-on dipole
Positive charge
Negative charge
Transverse dipole
Adding lines of force
Dipole field
Quadrapole field
Divergences in 1D,2D,3D
Gauss' Law
Divergence in 4D
Application: concentric sphere &shell

Application
Dipole-dipole forces
Ideal gas law
Van der Waals equation