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PHY 204: Electricity and Magnetism
Instructor: Muhammad Sabieh Anwar
Year: 2014-15
Office:
Email: [email protected]
Semester: Fall
Office Hours:
Category: Undergrad
Course Code: PHY 204
Course Title: Electricity and Magnetism
Credits: 3
Pre-requisite: None, good understanding of calculus is required
Teaching Fellow:
TF’s Office Hours: will be announced
Website: http://physlab.lums.edu.pk (Follow the teaching link)
Lecture format: Per week, there are two 75 minutes lectures and one 75 minutes recitation.
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Course Description:
The course is a first introduction to Electricity and Magnetism. It will review static and dynamic
electric and magnetic fields, as well as their inter-relationships. Physical models will be
presented throughout the course, with a sprinkling of computational exercises and in-class
demonstrations.
Learning outcomes:
At the conclusion of this course, students should be able to:
1.
understand and model electric and magnetic interactions in free space and homogenous
matter,
2.
write down the Maxwell equations with a clear understanding of their meaning,
3.
sketch and solve simple problems involving distributions of charges and currents, timeindependent and time-dependent.
Course Status:
Core for Physics and EE Majors.
Pre-requisites:
None, but a good grounding in calculus is essential for this course.
Text books:
Physics for Scientists and Engineers by Serway/Jewett. (Primary textbook)
Matter and Interactions by Chabay and Sherwood. (Useful complementary book)
Grading scheme:
Quizzes 25%
Homeworks: 10%
Mid-Term 25%
Final Exam 40%
The instructor has the liberty of varying these grade assignments by 5%.
Tentative Course Schedule & Topics:
Week
Topic
1
Electric Charge and Field
2
Gauss's law
3
Electric Potential
4
Electric fields in matter, capacitors and dielectrics
5
Direct currents in materials
6
Circuit elements
7
Review and Mid-Term Week
8A
Magnetic forces
8B,9
Production and Properties of magnetic fields, displacement current
10
Faraday's law
11
Magnetism in Matter
12
Inductance and circuit oscillations, alternating currents
13
Maxwell's equations and electromagnetic waves
14
Review and Final Exam