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Course last offered |
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Summer 2023/24 |
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Instructor(s) |
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CHEN Tian Wen, YANG Sen |
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No. of credits |
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3 |
Teaching Pattern
- Duration of course: about 13 weeks
- Lecture hour(s) / tutorial hour(s) per week: 3 / 1
Content
- Coulomb's law
- Electric field and potential
- Gauss' law
- Capacitance
- Circuits
- Magnetic force and field
- Ampere's law
- Electromagnetic induction
- AC circuit
- Maxwell's equations
- Electromagnetic waves
- Geometric optics
- Interference and diffraction
Remarks
- This course targets students who have learned the most basic knowledge in physics in high school. Students with more advanced physics background should consider taking PHYS 1314. This course employs a calculus-based approach.
- Prerequisite: (PHYS 1111, or PHYS 1112, or PHYS 1312) AND (level 3 or above in HKDSE Mathematics Extended Module M1/M2, or MATH 1013, or MATH 1020, or MATH 1023)
- Exclusion: PHYS 1154 (prior to 2014-15), PHYS 1314