In the world of competitive physics, where students chase gold medals at the International Physics Olympiad (IPhO) , names like are spoken with reverence—but is spoken of with a certain kind of fear. O. Ya. Savchenko’s Problems in Physics

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Part 7: Thermodynamics & Kinetic Theory

• 8.1 Coulomb’s law & electric fields (point charges, continuous distributions)
• 8.2 Electric potential & potential energy
• 8.3 Gauss’s law (symmetry applications)
• 8.4 Conductors & capacitors
• 8.5 Enhanced: Field line sketching & symmetry reasoning