PHY 108 Physics II

Code and Name PHY 108 Physics II
Type
Credit Hours 4
Pre-requisites MAT 240, PHY 107

Electric Charge, Coulomb’s Law. The Electric Field: Electric Field Lines, The Electric Field Lines Due to a Point Charge, The Electric Field Lines Due to an Electric Dipole, The Electric Field Lines Due to a Line of Charge, The Electric Field Lines Due to a Charged Disk. Gauss Law: Gauss’s Law in Cylindrical, Planar and Spherical Symmetries. Electric Potential: Equipotential Surfaces, Potential Due to an Electric Dipole. Capacitance: Capacitors in Parallel and Series, Capacitors with a Dielectric. Electric Current, Current Density, Resistance and Resistivity, Ohm’s Law. Circuits, Work, Energy and EMF, Single Loop Circuits, Potential Differences, Multiloop Circuits, RC Circuits. The Magnetic Field, Ampere’s Law, Solenoids and Torroids, Faraday’s Law of Induction, Alternating Currents, Maxwell’s Equations.

The lab components will cover related experiments the topics covered in the theory part.