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 | Vector analysis | Apply the Gauss and Stokes theorems to simple examples |
Class 2 | Electric field | Calculate the electric field for simple examples |
Class 3 | Gauss' law | Apply Gauss' law to simple examples |
Class 4 | Electric potential | Calculate the electric potential for simple examples |
Class 5 | Electrostatic energy | Calculate the electrostatic energy for simple examples |
Class 6 | Electric current | Calculate the electric current for simple examples |
Class 7 | Magnetic flux density | Calculate the magnetic flux density for simple examples |
Class 8 | Biot-Savart law | Apply Biot-Savart law to simple examples |
Electromagnetism by Hidekazu Tanaka, Baifukan (Japanese)
To be given in the course when necessary
Learning achievement is evaluated by a final exam.
No prerequisites.