This is a collection of resources for teaching electrostatics in matter, including polarization and the electric displacement, constructed over the course of four semesters of a transformed junior-level Electricity and Magnetism course.  Included are homework questions, concept tests, student tutorials, lecture notes, and information about common student difficulties in the topic and ways to address these difficulties.

This material was developed as part of a education research-based course transformation for junior level E&M. All of the resources developed for this course are available for free download from PhysPort. You must be a verified educator to download assessments.

• Download SEI-EfieldsInMatter.pdf - 90kb Adobe PDF Document

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This archive file contains all resources for teaching the topics of electric polarization of materials and dielectrics.

• Download 1-Polarization+Fields+Dielectrics.zip - 1359kb Compressed File

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Published June 28, 2010
Last Modified February 24, 2016

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This archive file contains all the resources for teaching the topic of the electric displacement.

• Download 2-Electric-Displacement-D.zip - 2596kb Compressed File

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Published June 28, 2010
Last Modified February 24, 2016

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This archive file contains all resources for teaching the methods of solving boundary value problems in dielectrics.

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Published June 28, 2010
Last Modified February 24, 2016

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