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Physics 3060 Electricity & Magnetism

This course will be offered in Winter 2012. 

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. Aleksandrs Aleksejevs, Associate Professor
Office: AS319
Phone: 637-6200, ext. 6302
E-Mail: aaleksejevs at grenfell dot mun dot ca

Text: 

David J. Griffiths, Introduction to Electrodynamics
 

Office Hours:

  • TBA

  • Marking Scheme: TBA

    Test type

    Value (% of final mark)

    Remark

     

       

    Lab reports

       
         
         

    Final exam

       

    Total =

    100

     

     


    Laboratory Schedule TBA

    Lab Exercise

    Monday PM    
    Plotting Electric Fields TBA
    The Parallel Plate Capacitor  
    Magnetic Force on a Current-Carrying Conductor  
    Magnetic Fields in Coils  
    The Oscilloscope  
    Microwave Optics  

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

    Last update: 10 February, 2012


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