Jul 04, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
[Archived Catalog]
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PHYS 4031 - Electricity and Magnetism 1
Basic concepts of the physics of time independent electric and magnetic fields in vacuum and in matter and application of vector analysis as the adequate mathematical tool for quantitative predictions. Topics include: Vector analysis review, electrostatic fields and potentials, energy and work in electrostatics, electrostatic fields and potentials in the presence of conductors, mathematical techniques to determine electrostatic fields and potentials, electrostatic fields in matter, electric polarization and displacement, effects of magnetostatic fields on charges, generation of magnetostatic fields by steady currents, Biot Savart Law, vector potential, magneto static fields in matter, magnetization and magnetic susceptibility, Ferromagnetism.
Requisites: MATH 3300 and 3400 and PHYS 2052
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Master mathematical techniques to predict and manipulate electrostatic and magnetostatic fields.
- Quantitatively predict electrostatic fields and forces generated by static distributions of charges.
- Quantitatively predict magnetic fields and forces generated by steady electric currents.
- Understand how electric fields interact with matter and predict electrostatic fields within matter.
- Understand how matter interacts with magnetic fields and predict magnetic fields within matter.
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