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Physics 3060 Electricity & Magnetism
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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
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Office Hours:
TBA
Marking Scheme: TBA
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Final exam |
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Laboratory Schedule TBA
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Lab Exercise |
Monday PM
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| Plotting Electric Fields |
TBA |
| The Parallel Plate Capacitor |
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| Magnetic Force on a Current-Carrying Conductor |
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| Magnetic Fields in Coils |
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| The Oscilloscope |
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| Microwave Optics |
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Please note that a passing grade in laboratory work is
required in order to pass the course. |
Last update:
10 February, 2012 |