PHY150: Electricity and Magnetism, Syllabus Content

PHY150: Electricity and Magnetism Prerequisite: PHY110 Syllabus Content: 1.0 Electric Charge and Electric Field 21-1 Static Electricity; Electric Charge and Its Conservation 21-2 Insulators and Conductors 21-3 Induced Charge; the Electroscope 21-4 Coulomb’s Law 21-5 The Electric Field 21-6 Electric Field Calculations for Continuous Charge Distributions 21-7 Field Lines 21-8 Electric Fields and Conductors 22-1 Electric Flux 22-2 Gauss’s Law 2.0 Electric Potential 23-1 Electric Potential Energy and Potential Difference 23-2 Relation between Electric Potential and Electric Field 23-3 Electric Potential Due to Point Charges 23-4 Potential Due to Any Charge Distribution 3.0 Capacitance, Dielectrics, Electric Energy Storage 24-1 Capacitors 24-2 Determination of Capacitance 24-3 Capacitors in Series and Parallel 24-4 Electric Energy Storage 24-5 Dielectrics 4.0 Electric Currents and Resistance 25-1 The Electric Battery 25-2 Electric Current 25-3 Ohm’s Law: Resistance and Resistors 25-4 Resistivity 25-5 Electric Power 26-7 Ammeters and Voltmeters 5.0 DC Circuits 26-1 EMF and Terminal Voltage 26-2 Resistors in Series and in Parallel 26-3 Kirchhoff;s Rules Potentiometer, Wheatstone Bridge, Balance Circuits 26-1 Circuits Containing Resistor and Capacitor (RC Circuits) 6.0 Magnetism 27-1 Magnets and Magnetic Fields 27-2 Electric Currents Produce Magnetic Fields 27-3 Force on an Electric Current in a Magnetic Field; Definition of 27-4 Force on an Electric Charge Moving in a Magnetic Field 27-5 Torque on a Current Loop; Magnetic Dipole Moment 28-1 Magnetic Field Due to a Straight Wire 28-2 Force between Two Parallel Wires 28-3 Definitions of the Ampere and the Coulomb 28-4 Ampère’s Law 28-5 Magnetic Field of a Solenoid and a Toroid 7.0 Electromagnetic Induction and Faraday’s Law 29-1 Induced EMF 29-2 Faraday’s Law of Induction; Lenz’s Law 29-3 EMF Induced in a Moving Conductor 30-1 Mutual Inductance 30-2 Self-Inductance 30-3 Energy Stored in a Magnetic Field 30-4 LR Circuits 30-5 LC Circuits and Electromagnetic Oscillations 30-6 LC Oscillations with Resistance (LRC Circuit) 8.0 AC Circuits 30-1 AC Circuits with AC Source 30-2 LRC Series AC Circuit