PHYS0470
Electricity & Magnetism [ Course Website ] [ Lab Website ]
Electric and magnetic fields. Motion of charged particles in fields. Electric and magnetic properties of matter. Direct and alternating currents. Maxwell's equations. Laboratory work. Prerequisites: PHYS 0040, PHYS 0060, or PHYS 0080 and MA 0090, 0100; or approved equivalents.
Textbooks: Electricity and Magnetism, Edward M. Purcell, Second Edition.
Prerequisite: PHYS 0050.
Course Outline:
- Electrostatics
- The Electrical Potential
- Vector Calculus
- Electric Fields around Conductors
- Electric Currents
- Electric Fields of Moving Charges
- Review of Special Relativity
- The Magnetic Field
- Electromagnetic Induction
- Maxwell's Equations and Electromagnetic Waves
- Electric Fields in Matter
- Magnetic Fields in Matter
