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Capacitance, factors affecting it, and energy stored in a charged capacitor.
Exponential charge/discharge, the time constant, and finding RC from a graph.
Coulomb’s law, and radial and uniform electric fields.
Electric potential and potential energy, and equipotentials.
Magnetic flux density, force on a current-carrying conductor, and Fleming’s left-hand rule.
Force on a moving charge, and circular motion of charged particles.
Flux linkage, Faraday’s law, Lenz’s law and the dynamo effect.
Protons, neutrons, electrons, antiparticles, the neutrino, and photon energy.
Hadrons vs leptons, quarks, strangeness, and conservation laws.
The alpha scattering experiment and the nuclear radius equation.
Random decay, activity, the decay constant and half-life.
E=mc², mass defect, binding energy and the binding energy per nucleon curve.
Induced fission, chain reactions, reactor control, and nuclear fusion.
X-ray production, exponential attenuation, and image contrast.
Piezoelectric transducers, acoustic impedance, the pulse-echo technique, and MRI.
Work through each topic to complete the section.