LahoreUniversity of Management Sciences
PHY 204 - Electricity & Magnetism
Fall 2013
Instructor
Anzar Khaliq
Room No.
9-223A
Office Hours
9:30 – 18:30 (students can take a rendezvous on any suitable time via email)
Email
Anzar.khaliq@lums.edu.pk
Telephone
8401
Secretary/TA
Kaneez Amna, Uneeb Rathore, Waleed Farrukh, Salman Azmat, Neha Badruddin Dhalwani, Anusha Shahid, Shama Rashid
TA Office Hours
TBA
Course URL (if any)
TBA
Course Basics
Credit Hours
3
Lecture(s)
Nbr of Lec(s) Per Week
2
Duration
75 mins
Recitation (per week)
Nbr of Rec (s) Per
Week
1
Duration
50 mins
Lab (if any ) per week
Nbr of Session(s) Per
Week
Tutorial (per week)
Nbr of Tut(s) Per
Week
Course Distribution
Core
Elective
Open for Student Category
Closed for Student Category
Duration
1
Duration
50 mins
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
This is one of the most beautiful courses taught to physicists and engineers. Several phenomena in real life that awe
inspire the man kind can be understood by understanding some basic physical concepts related to electricity and
magnetism.
Ever wondered how toner particles form images on papers, what happens when lightning strikes an automobile, how
are microphones, DJ tables and sound systems built, how batteries work and why smart phones have such a short
battery life. The answer to these and many other questions can be found in this particular course.
Some highlights of the physical concepts that students will get to see during this course are as follows.
Introduction to Electromagnetism and Electrostatics: Electric charge, Coulomb's law
Electric Field, Gauss’s law, Electrostatic Potential, Capacitors and Dielectrics, Ohms’s law, Electric currents, and electric
circuits, Kirchoff laws
Magnetic fields, Biot-Savart law and Ampere's law, Magnetic materials.
Time-varying fields and Faraday's law of induction, The Hall effect, Displacement Current and Maxwell's equations.
COURSE PREREQUISITE(S)
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Phy 101
COURSE OBJECTIVES
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Introducing the fundamental laws related to electricity and magnetism
Learning Outcomes
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Several fundamental laws including Coulomb’s law, Ohm’s law, Gauss’s law, Ampere’s law, Biot-Savart law, Kirchoff laws,
Faraday’s law as well as Maxwell’s equations and the Hall effect will help the students understand the phenomena governing
the world of electricity and magnetism.
Grading Breakup and Policy
Assignment(s):
Home Work: 10
Quiz(s): 20
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Class Participation:
Attendance:
Midterm Examination: 30
Project:
Final Examination: 40
Examination Detail
Yes:
Combine Separate:
Midterm
Exam
Duration: 90 mins
Preferred Date:
Exam Specifications:
Yes:
Final Exam
Combine Separate:
Duration: 3 hours
Exam Specifications:
COURSE OVERVIEW
Week/
Lecture/
Module
Topics
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Introduction, electric charge,
Coulomb's law
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Electric fields of point and extended
charged bodies
Recommended
Readings
Objectives/
Application
Acquaintances to the electric field that conveys
electric force from one body to another.
Application: Lightningbolts
Gauss’s law
Understanding electric flux and charge
distribution on metals and insulators
Electrostatic potential, energy
Calculating electric fields from potential energy
and vice versa, electric potential of several point
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charges
Applications: Electric Shielding, Farady cage
Capacitors and dielectrics
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Charge storage, electric fields in different
mediums
Applications: Capacitor microphone, batteries
Introduction to electric circuits
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Properties of electric currents and Ohm’s Law.
Understanding of circuit designs
Application: Working of everyday appliances
D.C. electric circuits
Understanding direct currents produced by
batteries. Multiloop circuits. Kirchoff’s rules
Applications: Fuel cells, Electric generators,
Fuses and circuit breakers, Ammeter, Voltmeter,
Wheatstone bridge
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Midterm exams
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Mid semester break
Magnetic fields, Ampere’s law
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Fundamentals of Magnetism
Application: Solenoids, Magnets
Biot-Savart law
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Forces and torques due to magnetic
fields
Magnetism in Materials, The Hall effect
Time-varying fields and Faraday's law
of induction
Faraday’s law, Lenz’s law
Alternating Current Circuits
Working of resistors, capacitors and inductors in
AC circuits
Application: Magnetic recording media, TV
tubes (CRTs), cyclotrons, bending magnets in
sycnchrotrons
Application: Electric Power Generators,
Magnetic levitation (levitated trains),
Applications: Frequency Filter circuits, Variable
capacitors, transformers, electric heaters,
toasters, buzzers and bells
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Displacement Current and Maxwell's
equations
Properties of electromagnetic waves, effect of
accelerated electric charges, Maxwell-Ampere
law
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Electromagnetic waves
Plane waves, polarization, the wave equation,
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generation of electromagnetic waves
Applications: AM and FM radio, Laser range
finder, solar cells, binoculars, laser torch
Textbook(s)/Supplementary Readings
Physics for Engineers and Scienists by Ohanian and Markert
Electricity and Magnetism Vol II by Purcell
Feynman Lectures on Physics Vol II by Feynman, Leighton and Sands