PHY 204: Electricity and Magnetism

Instructor: Muhammad Sabieh Anwar Year: 2015-16

Office: Email: sabieh@lums.edu.pk Semester: Fall

Office Hours: Category: Undergrad

Course Code: PHY 312 Course Title: Electricity and Magnetism

Credits: 3 Pre-requisite: None, good understanding of calculus is required

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, time-
independent 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:
I will not particularly follow a textbook, though I will take lots of ideas from research articles,
mainly published in the American Journal of Physics as well as these textbooks. The first one is
particularly useful for problems.

Physics for Scientists and Engineers by Serway/Jewett.

Matter and Interactions by Chabay and Sherwood.

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