PHYSICS 122, 132, 142 -- GENERAL PHYSICS II: ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM

Level

Physics 122:

Fundamentals of Physics, by Halliday, Resnick, and Walker

Physics 132:

Physics, by Halliday, Resnick, and Krane

Physics 142:

Electricity and Magnetism (Berkeley Physics Course) Vol. 2 by Purcell
Div, Grad, Curl and All That, by Schey

Prerequisites

Physics 121, 131 or 141 at the appropriate level (see Physical Sciences Collegiate Division booklet for details) and completion of, or concurrent registration in, the second quarter of a calculus sequence.

Syllabus

1. Historical Background
   
2. Electrostatics
   
   1. Coulomb's law, conductors and insulators, electrostatic induction
      
   2. Electric field, lines of force, action on point charges and dipoles
      
   3. Gauss' law, electric flux and experimental proof of Gauss' law and Coulomb's law
      
   4. Electric potential and electric field due to a point charge, a collection of point charges, and an electric dipole; electric potential energy
      
   5. Capacitors and dielectrics, energy stored in the electric field
      
3. Steady Electric Currents
   
   1. Electric current, resistance, Ohm's law, energy dissipation
      
   2. Electromotive forces, single-loop and multiloop circuits, Kirchoff's laws
      
   3. Transients in RC circuit
      
4. Magnetostatics
   
   1. Magnetic field, magnetism, Lorentz force, torque on a current loop
      
   2. *Biot-Savart law
      
   3. Ampere's law
      
   4. *the vector potential [P142 only]
      
5. Electromagnetic Induction
   
   1. Faraday's Law of Induction, Lenz's rule
      
   2. Self-Inductance and mutual inductance, energy stored in the magnetic field
      
6. *Maxwell's Equations
   
   1. Displacement current
      
   2. Maxwell's Equations
      
   3. Electromagnetic Waves
      
7. *Time-Varying Electric Currents
   
   1. AC circuits: reactance, impedance, vector diagram, effective current and voltage, power factor
      
   2. LC and RLC circuits, oscillation, resonance
      
8. Magnetic Properties of Matter
   
   1. Magnetic dipoles
      
   2. Paramagnetism, diamagnetism, and ferromagnetism
      

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* Topics normally omitted in 122
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Additional Topics for PHYSICS 122

1. Applications of D.C. circuits
2. Examples from Biology and Medicine

Lecture Demonstrations

The instructor will make extensive use of lecture demonstrations to make more vivid the phenomena being discussed.

LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS -- PHYSICS 122, 132, 142

• Electrical Measurements
  
• Field Mapping
  
• Acceleration and Deflection of Electrons
  
• Capacitance
  
• e/m of Electrons
  
• Faraday's Law (142)
  
• Inductance
  
• RLC Circuits (142)
  

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