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Ministry of Higher Education
& Scientific Research
University of Salahaddin-Erbil
College of Science
Department of Physics
1st Year General Physics
Course Book
General Physics (Electricity &
Magnetism)
B.Sc. degree in physics
Academic year 2014-2015
Assistant lecturer: Fryad Youhana Gorges
Email: [email protected]
Language of instruction:
The course might be given in English.
Class: Two hours a week
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
Our study will first consider electric phenomena and the magnetic
phenomena. Later we will show that the two cannot be separated, certain
electric phenomena produce magnetic effects, and certain magnetic
phenomena produce electric effects. This leads us to unify electric and
magnetic phenomena under the common name electromagnetism.
The objective of studying electricity and magnetism is to give the
students the ability to solve practical problems involving fields, forces, and
energy, and simple boundary value problems. In addition, the course
develops the concepts of circuit theory from the fundamental field
relationships, and discusses capacitance, resistance, and inductance from a
fundamental point of view.
Electricity and Magnetism affords students an opportunity to increase
their ability to use fundamental models in classical electricity and
magnetism to describe and explain nature and also to earn university credit.
Forms of the Teaching
Different forms of the teaching will be used to reach the objectives of
the course: Power point presentations for the head titles and definitions and
summery of conclusions, to make the students more understandable also I
will use whiteboard to solving the problems and deriving equations, besides
worksheet will be designed to let the chance for participating on several
aspects of the subject in the classroom. There will be classroom discussion
and the lecturer will give problem homework to be solved, and different
issues discussed throughout the academic year.
To get the best of the topic, it is suggested that you attend classes as
much as possible, read the required lectures, teacher’s notes regularly as all
of them are foundations for the material. Try as much as possible to
participate in classroom discussions, preparing the assignments given the
course.
Grading
The students are required to do three closed book exam at the academic
year respectively, besides other assignments including homework solving,
seminars, and quizzes. Three
exams have (15 marks), the classroom
activities and seminar preparation count 5 marks.
Academic year Material
Required book:
1- “Fundamental of Physics”, 2002, by David halliday , Robert Re snick
, Kenney S.Krane, 5th edition, the John Wiley & Sons, INC.
2- “Fundamental of Physics”, 2005, by David halliday , Robert Re snick
, Kenney S.Krane, 7th edition, the John Wiley & Sons, INC.
3- “University Physics” by Francis W. Sears , Mark W. Zemansky and
Hugh D.Young, 6th edition, ADDISON- WESLEY PUBLISHING
COMPANY.
4- Principles of Physics Series ( Electricity and Magnetism)
And any other electricity & Magnetism textbook published in 20 th and
21st century.
The core Materials of the subject consist of the above books, especially
first book, articles from media and internet, and lecturer’s notes, make
sure you read all the materials and prepare well before going for the
exam.
Students are encouraged to search for any other materials that may help
improve their English language ability in reading, and improving their
knowledge in designing and doing projects of electricity and magnetism.
Course program
The academic year for the first stage runs from late October until late May,
The class meets for 120 minutes each Week.
Week 1: Properties of Electric Charges, Insulators and Conductors
Coulomb’s Law, Continues charge distributions.
Week 1: The electric field, the electric field of point charges, Electric
Field of a Continuous Charge Distribution.
Week 2: Electric Field Lines, A Point charge in an electric field, A dipole
in an electric field.
Week 3: The flux of a vector field, the flux of the electric field, Gauss, Law,
Gauss, law and coulombs law.
Week 4: Applications of Gauss, Law, Gauss, Law and conductors,
Experimental tests of Gauss, Law and coulomb’s law.
Week 5: Potential energy, electric potential energy, electric potential,
calculating the potential from the field.
Weeks 6+7: potential due to point charges, electric potential of a Continuous
Charge Distributions, calculating the field from the potential,
equipotential surfaces.
Week 8 : Capacitance, calculating the capacitance, capacitors in series and
parallel, energy storage in an electric field.
Week 9 : capacitor with a dielectric, electric current, electromotive force,
analysis of circuits.
Week 9 : electric fields in circuits, resistors in series and parallel, energy
transfers in an electric circuit.
Week 10 : the magnetic field, magnetic interactions and magnetic poles, the
magnetic force on a moving charge.
Week 11 : the magnetic force on a current-carrying wire, the torque on a
current loop.
Week 12: the magnetic field due to a moving charge, the magnetic field of a
current, two parallel currents.
Week 13: the magnetic field of solenoid, Ampere’s law.
Weeks 14+15: Faraday’s law of induction.
Weeks 16+17: Magnetic properties of Materials.
Weeks 18+19: Inductance
Weeks 20+21+22: Alternating current circuit
Weeks 23 3rd term examination
Final exam will be determined by the exam board
This syllabus may be subject to changes, i.e, we may take either longer or shorter
time to finish a topic, if any changes happened you will be notified well in
advance.
University of Salahaddin-Hawler
Final Examination
College of Science
General Physics (Electricity& Magnetism)
Department of Physics
2010-2011
st
1 class
Second Attempt
Date: Sep. 2011
Time: 90 minutes