Electricity and Magnetism

Electricity and magnetism

PHYS1101 General Physics 1

5 hours No requisites

1 Coulomb’s Law / Electric charge, conductors and insulators, coulomb’s law, charge is quantized, charge is conserved

2 Electric Fields / The electric field, electric field lines, electric field due to a charged particle, electric dipole, the electric field due to an electric dipole, electric field due to a line of charge, the electric field due to a charged disk, a point charge in an electric field, a dipole in an electric field

3 Gauss’ Law / Flux of an electric field, gauss' law, gauss' law and coulomb's law, a charged isolated conductor, applying gauss' law: cylindrical symmetry, applying gauss' law: planar symmetry, applying gauss' law: spherical symmetry

4 Electric Potential / Electric potential, electric potential energy, equipotential surfaces, calculating the potential from the field, potential due to a point charge, potential due to a group of point charges, potential due to an electric dipole, potential due to a continuous charge distribution, calculating the field from the potential, electric potential energy of a system of point charges, potential of a charged isolated conductor

5 Capacitance / Capacitors, capacitance, calculating the capacitance, capacitors in parallel and in series, energy stored in an electric field, capacitor with a dielectric. dielectrics and gauss’ law

6 Current and Resistance / Electric currents, current density, resistance and resistivity, ohm's law, power in electric circuits. semiconductors, superconductors

7 Circuits / Single-loop circuits, “pumping” charges, work, energy, and emf, calculating the current in a single-loop circuit, other single-loop circuits, potential difference between two points, multiloop circuits (resistors in parallel and in series), the ammeter and the voltmeter, RC circuits, charging and discharging a capacitor. sample problems

8 Magnetic Fields / The source of a magnetic field, the definition of the magnetic field, crossed fields: discovery of the electron, crossed fields: the hall effect, a circulating charged particle, cyclotrons and synchrotrons, magnetic force on a current-carrying wire, torque on a current loop, the magnetic dipole moment

9 Magnetic Fields Due to Currents / Calculating the magnetic field due to a current, magnetic field due to a current in a long straight wire, magnetic field due to a current in a circular arc of wire, force between two parallel currents, ampere’s law, magnetic field outside a long straight wire with current , magnetic field inside a long straight wire with current , solenoids and toroids, a current-carrying coil as a magnetic dipole

10 Induction and Inductance / Faraday’s law of induction, Lenz’s law. induction and energy transfers, induced electric fields, inductors and inductance, self-induction, RL circuits, energy stored in a magnetic field, energy density of a magnetic field, mutual induction, a current-carrying coil as a magnetic dipole

11 Electromagnetic Oscillations and Alternating Current / LC oscillations, damped oscillations in an RLC circuit, forced oscillations of three simple circuits, the series RLC circuit, power in alternating-current circuits, transformers

12 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

Define the concepts of electric charge, Coulomb law, Electric field, Electric potential, Electric flux through a surface..