The course teaches the basics of static electric and magnetic fields in vacuum, starting with Coulomb’s force law for charges.
Electromagnetism is important for understanding nature, and is essential for the study of science, engineering, life sciences, and other specialized courses. Students will understand how electric and magnetic fields are produced by charges and current, respectively, and their mathematical descriptions. This will allow them to understand static electromagnetic phenomena as well as allow them to solve basic problems in electromagnetism.
By completing this course, students will be able to:
1) Understand the concepts of electric field, electric potential, electrostatic energy, magnetic flux density, magnetic moment, etc., correctly, and describe them mathematically.
2) Understand Gauss's law for electric fields and the Biot-Savart law for magnetic fields correctly, and find the electric field and magnetic flux density by applying said laws.
3) Find mathematical solutions to problems in electromagnetism expressed by the appropriate equations, and explain the physical meaning of said solutions.
Coulomb’s law, electric field, Gauss's law, electric potential, conductor, condenser, capacitance, electrostatic energy, electric current, magnetic force, magnetic flux density, magnetic moment, Biot-Savart law
✔ Specialist skills | Intercultural skills | Communication skills | Critical thinking skills | ✔ Practical and/or problem-solving skills |
Two-thirds of each class is devoted to fundamentals and the rest to advanced content or application. To allow students to get a good understanding of the course contents and practice application, problems related to the contents of this course are provided in Exercises in Physics II.
Course schedule | Required learning | |
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Class 1 | Introduction to general structure of electromagnetism, positive and negative charge, Coulomb's law | Explain the general structure of electromagnetism. |
Class 2 | Electric field, line of electric force, electrostatic potential, electric dipole moment | Understand the geometrical properties of line of electric force |
Class 3 | Gauss's law | Understand the relation between Gauss's law and geometrical acceptance. |
Class 4 | Properties of conductor, electrostatic induction, electric shielding, capacitor, electrostatic capacitance, energy of electric field | Understand that the electric potential is constant inside a conductor. |
Class 5 | Electric current, conservation of electric charge, force between two electic currents, | Understand the implication of conservation of electric charge |
Class 6 | Manetic field produced by electric current, magnetic flux density, magnetic flux | Understand that magnetic field is a vector product of electric current and position. |
Class 7 | Gauss's law concerning the maginetic field, Biot-Savart law | Understand the relation between Biot-Savart law and geometrical acceptance |
Class 8 | Magnetic dipole moment, energy of static maginetic field, summary | Understand the relation between electric dipole moment and magnetic dipole moment |
Handout will be given to students.
Reference books will be introduced in the class.
Learning achievement is evaluated by a final exam.
No prerequisites.