PHYS 1413 - Introductory Electromagnetism and Modern Physics

Teaching Pattern

• Duration of course: about 13 weeks

• Lecture hour(s) per week: 3

Content

• Electric charge, Coulom law, Electric field, field lines, Motion of charge in field
• Electric flux, Gauss law and application
• Electric potential and energy, Capacitance and capacitors, Energy storage Capacitors with dielectric
• Electric current and resistance
• DC circuit, Magnetic field and motion of charge in magnetic field
• Magnetic force on current segment, Current loop, Hall effect
• Sources of magnetic field, Biot-Savart law
• Ampere law, Solenoid, magnetic flux, Ampere law, Faraday law
• Lenz law, Induced emf, Generators and motors, eddy current
• Inductance, Self-inductance
• RL circuit, energy in magnetic field, Oscillations in LC circuit, RLC circuit
• Displacement current and Electromagnetic Waves, Maxwell's Equations
• Interference of Light Waves
• Diffraction of light Waves
• Quantum Physics, Planck hypothesis, photoelectric effect, photon Wave properties of particles, Bohr's atom model, double-slit experiment
• Quantum Mechanics, Schrodinger equation, Particle in a box, Tunneling, STM

Remarks

• Exclusion: PHYS 112 (prior to 2007-08), PHYS 2421
• Prerequisite: PHYS 1411

PHYS 1413 will not be offered w.e.f. 2012/13. It can be substituted by PHYS 1114 or PHYS 1154.