99 problems concerning
electricity, magnetism, waves, and thermodynamics

This World Wide Web page written by Dan Styer, Oberlin College Department of Physics and Astronomy ;
http://www.oberlin.edu/physics/dstyer/99Problems/99Problems.html;
last updated 21 May 2024.

Problems

Model Solutions:

• Electrostatics
• Using Coulomb's law
• Hanging charges
• Estimating charges and forces
• Electric field due to two charges
• Clock of charge
• Rod of charge
• Flux in the Earth's atmosphere
• Field due to a pipe of charge
• Hanging from a charged wall
• The thick shell of charge
• Sphere of charge with a spherical cavity
• Charge collected by the International Space Station
• Electric potential due to a washer
• Electric potential due to a quarter disk
• Electric potential energy
• A conductor with a cavity enclosing a charge
• Capacitance for carpenters
• Force between capacitor plates
• Electric Current
• Electric fields and charges in resistors
• Automobile gas gauge
• Tea kettle
• A circuit with two batteries
• A circuit with four resistors, II
• A circuit with five resistors
• Resistors in parallel
• Network circuit
• Resistance measurement
• An application for RC circuits
• Magnetism
• Television
• Protective shield against charged bullets
• Force on table wire
• Primitive motor
• An island in the stream
• The thick pipe of current
• Infinite sheet of current
• Curtain of current
• Electromagnetism
• The essence of induced electric field
• Induced electric field in a huge magnet
• Alternating current generator
• Primitive motor revisited
• Inductors in series
• Inductor in a circuit
• Shortcut to the period of an LC oscillator
• Width of a resonance curve
• Parallel RC circuit
• AC networks, I and II
• Experimental detection of the Maxwell term
• How does i²R heating power get to a resistor?
• Waves
• Circularly polarized standing waves
• Fluids
• Melting ice
• Sandstone quarry
• True love
• Open the stopcock
• Thermodynamics
• Helium engine, Thermoelectric engine, and Lenoir cycle
• Carbon sequestration
• Entropy and work
• Entropy and phase changes
• Change in a cycle