Physics for Engineering

PHYS1113 General Physics

4 hours No requisites

1 Electric charge / Electric Charge / Conductors and Insulators / Coulomb’ Law / Charge is Quantized

2 Electric fields / The Electric Field / Electric Field Lines / The Electric Field Due to a Point Charge / A Point Charge in an Electric Field

3 Gauss’ law / Flux of an Electric Field / Gauss’ Law / Gauss’ Law and Coulomb’ Law / Applying Gauss’s Law : Planar Symmetry

4 Electric potential / Electric Potential Energy / Electric Potential / Equipotential Surfaces / Calculating the Potential from the Field / Potential Due to a Point Charge / Potential Due to a Group of Point Charges / Calculating the Field from the Potential / Electric Potential Energy of a System of Point Charges

5 Capacitance / Capacitance / Calculating the Capacitance of a Parallel-Plate Capacitor / Capacitor in Parallel and in Series / Energy Stored in an Electric Field / Capacitor with a Dielectric

6 Current and resistance / Electric current / Current Density / Resistance and Resistivity / Ohm’s Law / Power in Electric Circuits

7 Circuits / Work, Energy and Emf / Calculating the Current in a Single- Loop Circuit / Other single-Loop Circuits / Multiloop Circuits / RC Circuits

8 Magnetic fields / The production of a Magnetic Field / The Definition of B / A Circulating Charged Particle / Magnetic Force on a Current-Carrying Wire

9 Magnetic fields due to currents / Calculating the Magnetic Field due to a Current / Ampere’s Law / Solenoids and Toroids

10 Induction and Inductance / Faraday’s Law of Induction / Lenz’s Law / Induced Electric Fields / Inductors and Inductance / Self-Induction / Energy Stored in a Magnetic Field / Mutual Induction

11 Practical Part: / Students will conduct various experiments in the practical part of the course. Each student will perform the experiment, collect data, extract result, and prepare a written report every week

1.1 Mapped to: K1

Describe the interaction of electric field with matter

Teaching Strategy Lectures and lab experiments