Topics include:  Coulomb's law; electrostatic field and potential; Gauss' law; conductors; magnetostatics; Ampere's law; Biot-Savart law; dielectric and magnetic materials, electrostatic and magnetostatic energy; Lorentz force; time varying fields; Faraday's law; Maxwell's equations.

Prerequisite: Physics 1051 and Mathematics 3260. Math 3260 may be taken concurrently.

Credit restrictions: Physics 3500.

Lectures: Three hours per week.

Laboratory: Three hours per week.

Instructor: Dr. Pierre-Michel Rouleau, Associate Professor Office: FC 2023 Phone: 637-6294 E-Mail: prouleau at grenfell dot mun dot ca Text:  TBA An Introduction to Error Analysis (2nd Ed.), John R. Taylor (required for 2nd year and above laboratory work)

Office Hours:

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Laboratory Schedule TBA

Please note that a passing grade in laboratory work is required in order to pass the course.