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- Instructor(s)
- Shibata Toshi-Aki
- Class Format
- Lecture (Face-to-face)
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- Day/Period(Room No.)
- Fri1-2(W321)
- Group
- L
- Course number
- LAS.P103
- Credits
- 1
- Academic year
- 2022
- Offered quarter
- 3Q
- Syllabus updated
- 2022/5/11
- Lecture notes updated
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- Language used
- Japanese
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Course description and aims
This 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 charges and current produce electric and magnetic fields, 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.
Student learning outcomes
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.
Keywords
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
Competencies that will be developed
| Specialist skills | ✔ Intercultural skills | Communication skills | Critical thinking skills | Practical and/or problem-solving skills |
Class flow
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
| Course schedule | Required learning | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Coulomb’s law and electric field (force between electric charges, introduction of electric field, electric field line) Experiments related to the class 1 | Become able to explain Coulomb's law. |
| Class 2 | Electric field and Gauss's law (calculation of electric field, properties of Gauss's law) Experiments related to the class 2 | Become able to explain Gauss's law. |
| Class 3 | Application of Gauss's law and electric potential (electric charge density distribution) Experiments related to the class 3 | Become able to apply Gauss's law. |
| Class 4 | Conductors (electric fields and potential around conductors, electric shielding) Experiments related to the class 4 | Become able to explain properties of conductors. |
| Class 5 | Capacitors and electrostatic energy (energy stored in the electric field) Experiments related to the class 5 | Become able to explain properties of capacitors. |
| Class 6 | Biot-Savart law (magnetic field caused by electric current) Experiments related to the class 6 | Become able to explain properties of Biot-Savart law. |
| Class 7 | Electric current and magnetic force between currents, magnetic flux density, magnetic flux (magnetic moment) Experiments related to the class 7. | Become able to explain magnetic field caused by a straight electric current. |
Out-of-Class Study Time (Preparation and Review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
Textbook(s)
Handout (in Japanese)
Reference books, course materials, etc.
none
Assessment criteria and methods
Scores are based on the final exam and assignments.
Related courses
- LAS.P106 ： Exercises in Physics II
Prerequisites (i.e., required knowledge, skills, courses, etc.)
No prerequisites.
Other
In the lecture of electromagnetism at University, mathematical properties of scalar and vector functions such as partial derivative, gradient, divergence, line integral, surface integral, and volume integral are introduced, and the systematic structure of electromagnetism is explained. Physics textbooks of high school contain about 700 pages of description, including static electric and magnetic fields, electromagnetic induction, electric circuit of alternating currents.
It is important to read the physics textbooks of high school from the view point of a University student, investigate it, understand the contents deeply, and become able to explain each of the pages to other people.
