PHYS 3053 - Honors Electricity and Magnetism I

Course Description

This course is a more in-depth version of PHYS 3033. Key topics include: (i) Electrostatics: electric charge and fields, Coulomb’s law, Gauss’ Law, multipoles, Laplace equation; (ii) Magnetostatics: currents, magnetic fields and vector potential, Biot-Savart Law, Faraday’s law, magnetic materials; (iii) Maxwell’s equations; and (iv) Interaction of electromagnetic fields with matter, polarization and magnetization, bound charges and bound currents, relative permittivity and permeability, ferromagnets.

 

Teaching Pattern

  • Duration of course: about 13 weeks

  • Lecture hour(s) per week: 4

 

Content

This course is a more in-depth version of PHYS 3033.

  • Electrostatics: electric charge and fields, Coulomb's law, Gauss'Law, multipoles, Laplace equation
  • Magnetostatics: currents, magnetic fields and vector potential, Biot-Savart Law, Faraday's law, magnetic materials
  • Maxwell’s equations
  • Interaction of electromagnetic fields with matter, polarization and magnetization, bound charges and bound currents, relative permittivity and permeability, ferromagnets
     

 

Remarks

  • Exclusion(s): PHYS 3033
  • Prerequisite(s): PHYS 1114 (Grade B- or above) or PHYS1154 (Grade B- or above) (prior to 2014-15) or PHYS 1314

 

Sample Course Outline