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Applied Physics for Engineers

Course Outline

  • Electrostatics, Coulomb’s law
  • Electric field, electric field lines, electric field due to point and dipole
  • Electric field due to line of charge, ring of charge, disk of charge
  • A point charge and a dipole in an electric field
  • The flux of a vector field, The flux of electric field, Gauss’ law and its applications
  • Spherically symmetric charge distributions, a charged isolated conductor
  • Electric potential energy, potential energy of a system of charges, calculating potential from the field
  • Electric potentials, potential due to point charge, potential due to group of point charges, equipotential surfaces
  • Potential due to dipole, continuous charge distribution
  • Potential for line of charge, disk of charge, ring of charge
  • Electric current, current density, resistivity and conductivity, ohm’s law
  • Electromagnetism, magnetic properties of materials
  • The magnetic field B, The magnetic field of a moving charge, circulating charges
  • The Hall effect, magnetic force on a current, torque on a current loop=op, the magnetic dipole
  • The Biot-Savart law, Line of B, two parallel conductors, Ampere’s law, solenoid & toroids
  • Faraday’s experiments, Faraday‘s law of induction, Lenz’s law
  • Emf, induced emf and motional emf, induced electric field
  • Basic theory and principle of electromagnetic waves
  • The basic equations of electromagnetism, induced magnetic fields
  • The electromagnetic spectrum, generating an electromagnetic wave
  • Reflection and refraction at a plane and spherical surface, total internal reflection
  • Graphical method for mirrors and lenses
  • Two source interference, double-slit interference, phase coherence
  • Interference from thin films, diffraction and wave theory of light and
  • Single-slit diffraction, diffraction gratings, X -ray diffraction,
  • Polarization, polarizing sheets, types of polarizations
  • Polarization of electromagnetic waves

Text Books

  • Fundamentals of Physics, by David Halliday, Resnick and Walker/Krane
  • University Physics by Freedman and Young (10th and higher editions)
  • H.D. Young and R.G. Freedman, Physics for Scientists and Engineers