Next week, we'll start to discuss circuits, having learned enough about electrostatics to do something practical. The Griffiths book has next to nothing on circuits, so I'm supplementing this material with my own notes, which you can find here. [23Mb PDF]
For Monday (21 Sept), please read sections 3.6 & 3.7 along with the whole of Ch. 4, covering capacitors and electric current. It should be light reading - almost no math.
For Wednesday (23 Sept), please read Ch. 5, covering basic dc circuits.
(Chapters 2 and 3 might be worth skimming to make sure you've got the qualitative aspects of electrostatics down, if you have time. It is all stuff we covered already, but sometimes the math hides the qualitative understanding ...)
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