Main Page > BS Physics 4-Years Program (1st to 8th semester) (Regular) > Electricity and Magnetism
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Electricity and Magnetism
| Electrostatics, electric charge, conductors and insulators, Coulomb’s law, Electric fields due to a point charge and an electric dipole, Electric field of continious charge distributions (cases of uniform line, ring and disk of charge), electric dipole in an electric field, electric flux, Gauss’ law and its applications (planar, cylindrical and spherical symmetry). Electric Potential, Equipotential surfaces, Potential due to a point charge and a group of point charges, Potential due to an electric dipole, Electric potential of continuous charge distributions, Relation between electric field and electric potential energy. Calculating the capacitance, capacitors combinations (series and parallel), energy stored in an electric field, dielectrics and Gauss’ law. Ohm’s law, electric current and current density, resistance and resistivity, Resistors combinations (series and parallel), Ohm’s law: a microscopic view, semiconductors and superconductors. magnetic force on a moving charge, Magnetic force on a current carrying wire, torque on a current loop, magnetic dipole moment, Magnetic field due to a current, force between two parallel currents, Ampere’s law, Biot-Savart law: magnetic field due to a current, solenoids and toroids, current-carrying coil as a magnetic dipole, inductance, Faraday’s law of induction, Lenz’s law, motional EMF, Induced electric fields. Energy stored in a magnetic field. Magnetic properties and Alternating Fields, Gauss’ law for magnetism, Spin and orbital magnetic dipole moment, magnetization, magnetic materials, Diamagnetism, Paramagnetism, Ferromagnetism, Hysteresis, Induced magnetic fields, Displacement current, electromagnetism and Maxwell’s equations. |
| Credit hours/ Marks:- 3 |
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