Following Fundamentals of Electromagnetism 1, this course covers static magnetic fields, changing electromagnetic fields, Maxwell’s equations, and electromagnetic waves.
Electromagnetism is important for understanding nature, and is essential for the study of science, engineering, life sciences, and other specialized courses. Students will learn the basic laws of electromagnetism in vacuum, and their mathematical descriptions. This will allow them to understand general electromagnetic phenomena as well as allow them to solve general problems in electromagnetism.
By completing this course, students will be able to:
1) Understand the concepts of induced electromotive force, induced electric field, self-induction, mutual induction, magnetic energy, displacement current, etc., correctly, and describe them mathematically.
2) Understand Gauss's law for magnetic flux density, Ampére’s law, Faraday's law and Maxwell-Ampére’s law correctly, and apply them to solve problems in electromagnetism.
3) Understand electromagnetic waves on the basis of Maxwell’s equations.
4) Find mathematical solutions to problems in electromagnetism expressed by the appropriate equations, and explain the physical meaning of said solutions.
Gauss's law, Ampére’s law, electromagnetic induction, Faraday's law, induced electromotive force, induced electric field, self-inductance, mutual inductance, magnetic energy, displacement current, Maxwell-Ampére’s law, Maxwell’s equations, electromagnetic waves
✔ 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 | Current and the charge conservation law. The forces between currents | Explain the force between two parallel wires carrying current. |
Class 2 | Biot-Savart's law and Gauss's law for magnetic flux density | Explain Biot-Savart law, Gauss's law for magnetism and the relation of them.. |
Class 3 | Ampere's law and its application | Explain Ampere's law and its applications. |
Class 4 | The law of electromagnetic induction and self- and mutual-induction. | Explain electromagnetic induction and self- and mutual-induction.. |
Class 5 | Quasi-static circuits and the energy of magnetic field | Explain the function of the electric circuits consisted of resistors, capacitors and coils. |
Class 6 | Displacement currents and Maxwell-Ampere' law | Explain displacement current and Maxwell-Ampere's law. |
Class 7 | Wave equation, electromagnetic plane wave and energy carried by electromagnetic wave | Derive electromagnetic plane waves from Maxwell's equations. Explain the energy carried by electromagnetic wave |
Class 8 | Fundamentals of optics and elementary particles | Understand basic optics and the properties of elementary particles. |
Kazukiyo Nagata, Electromagnetics, Tokyo Kyohgakusya (Japanese)
Unspecified.
Learning achievement is evaluated by a final exam.
No prerequisites.