PHYS 1433 - Laboratory for Electromagnetism and Modern Physics

Course last offered 

 :   

Spring 2011/12

Instructor(s)

 :

Yee Fai NG

No. of credits

 :

1



Teaching Pattern

  • Duration of course: about 14 weeks

  • Tutorial hour(s) / laboratory hour(s) per week: 1 / 2

 

Content

  • Coulomb's Law
  • Capacitance and Electrostatic Energy
  • Coulomb Constant
  • DC Circuits
  • Magnetic field Generated by a Coil
  • The Current Balance
  • Introduction to the Oscilloscope
  • Faradays' Law of Induction
  • AC Circuit
  • Two-slit Interference and Diffraction Grating
  • The Balmer series of Hydrogen

 

Remarks

  • Exclusion: PHYS 112 (prior to 2007-08), PHYS 2421
  • Corequisite: PHYS 1413

 

PHYS 1433 will not be offered w.e.f. 2012/13. It can be substituted by PHYS 1115