Courses
PHY1013S: Physics B for Engineers
This is the first-year, second semester electromagnetism, waves and optics half course for engineering students.
Coordinator
Dieter Geduld, RW James 3.05
Entrance requirements
Consult engineering handbook
Course outline
Electric charge, electric field, Gauss's law, electric potential, capacitance, current, current density, emf, resistance, resistivity, networks, the magnetic field, Biot-Savart law, Ampere's law, electromagnetic induction, inductance, simple harmonic motion, oscillations, the wave model, travelling waves, sound & light, the Doppler effect, superposition, standing waves, light & optics, interference of light, diffraction.
Lecturers
- Dieter Geduld, RW James 3.05