May 15, 2024  
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2017-18 
    
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2017-18 [Archived Catalog]

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PHYS 4031 - Electricity and Magnetism 1


Basic concepts of the physics of time independent electric and magnetic fields in vacuum and in matter and application of vector analysis as the adequate mathematical tool for quantitative predictions. Topics include: Vector analysis review, electrostatic fields and potentials, energy and work in electrostatics, electrostatic fields and potentials in the presence of conductors, mathematical techniques to determine electrostatic fields and potentials, electrostatic fields in matter, electric polarization and displacement, effects of magnetostatic fields on charges, generation of magnetostatic fields by steady currents, Biot Savart Law, vector potential, magneto static fields in matter, magnetization and magnetic susceptibility, Ferromagnetism.

Requisites: MATH 3300 and 3400 and PHYS 2052
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I



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