PH211: Electricity, Magnetism and Electrical Circuits

Syllabus

1. Electrical Charge and Coulomb’s Law
Introduction, charge, conductors and insulators, Coulomb’s Law

2. The Electric Field
Fields, the E field, field from point charges,fields from charge distributions, force on charges, electric dipole in an E field

3. Gauss’ Law
Flux of a vector field, electric flux, Gauss’ law, applications of Gauss’ law

4. Electric Potential
Electric potential energy, potential/field relationships, potential due to point charges and distributions, equipotential surfaces

5. Capacitors and Dielectrics
Capacitance and its calculation, caps. in series and parallel, energy stored, dielectrics

6. The Magnetic Field
B fields, force on moving charge, Hall effect, force on a current, torque on a current loop, magnetic dipole

7. Ampere’s Law
Biot-Savart law and applications, Ampere’s law and applications

8. Magnetic Properties of Matter
Atomic and nuclear magnetism, magnetisation, magnetic materials.

9. Circuit Principles
Circuit laws, network theorems, nonlinear networks

10. Signal processing circuits
periodic waveforms,ideal amplifiers, operational amplifiers, ideal diodes, waveshaping circuits

11. Response to forcing functions, phasors, AC circuit analysis
Power calculations, frequency response, filters, resonance

Textbook: "University Physics with Modern Physics with Mastering Physics", Young, Friedman & Ford; (Pub. Pearson, 13th ed) , new copy required. 

Lecturer

Dr. Gerry Morgan
Office: 149
Phone: ext. 3615
email: gerry.morgannuigalway.ie

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