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PHY 102 Course Outline

This document outlines the weekly lecture schedule for the PHY 102 General Physics II course at the Federal University of Technology, Owerri for the 2020/2021 academic session. The course covers topics in electricity and magnetism over 14 weeks, including electric fields, Gauss' law, capacitors, electric current, electromotive force, magnetic fields, electromagnetic induction, and alternating current circuits. A midterm test is scheduled for week 5 and revision takes place in week 14. Recommended textbooks are listed at the end.

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PHY 102 Course Outline

This document outlines the weekly lecture schedule for the PHY 102 General Physics II course at the Federal University of Technology, Owerri for the 2020/2021 academic session. The course covers topics in electricity and magnetism over 14 weeks, including electric fields, Gauss' law, capacitors, electric current, electromotive force, magnetic fields, electromagnetic induction, and alternating current circuits. A midterm test is scheduled for week 5 and revision takes place in week 14. Recommended textbooks are listed at the end.

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FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, OWERRI

SCHOOL OF PHYSICAL SCIENCES


DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS

PHY 102 - GENERAL PHYSICS II (3 UNITS)


WEEKLY LECTURE SCHEDULE, 2020/2021 SESSION

Week 1 03/01/22 - 07/01/22 Charge and Matter: Classification of Solids from the point of view point of the
Energy Band Theory: Coulomb's Law of Electrostatics and Applications.
Week 2 10/01/22 - 14/01/22 Electric Fields: Electric Fields Lines; Electric Fields due to different Charge
Configurations; Electric Dipole Moment; Motion of Charged Particle in an
Electric Field.
Week 3 17/01/22 - 21/01/22 Gauss' Law: Gauss' Law and Applications
Week 4 24/01/22 - 28/01/22 Electric Potential: Electric Potential; Potential difference; Relation between V
and E; Electric Potential Energy.
Week 5 31/01/22 - 04/02/22 Capacitors and Dielectrics: Capacitance; factors affecting Capacitance of
Capacitors; Combinations of Capacitors; Molecular Theory of induced Charge in
Dielectrics; Gauss' law in Dielectrics.

TEST
Week 6 07/02/22 - 11/02/22 Electric Current: Electric Current and Current Density; Resistances; Resistivity
and Conductivity; Ohm's law; Temperature Coefficient of Resistivity; Electric
Power and Joulean Heat.
Week 7 14/02/22 - 18/02/22 Electromotive Force (EMF) and Electric Circuits: Seat of Emf; Internal
Resistance; Terminal Voltage; The Circuit equation; Combination of Resistances;
Electrical networks & Kirchhoff's rules.
Week 8 21/02/22 - 25/02/22 Measurement of Resistances and RC Circuits: The Potentiometer; Potential
dividers; The Wheatstone bridge; RC circuits; Time constant of RC circuits
Week 9 28/02/22 - 04/03/22 Magnetic Fields: Magnetic induction; Force on a current carrying conductor in a
magnetic field; Magnetic dipoles and moments; Force on moving charge in a
magnetic field; Cyclotron frequency; Hall Effect.
Week 10 07/03/22 - 11/03/22 Sources of Magnetic fields: Ampere's Circuital Law and Applications; Forces
between current carrying conductors; Biot-Savart's law and Applications
Week 11 14/03/22 - 18/03/22 Electromagnetic Induction: Faraday's law of Electromagnetic Induction and
Lenz's Law; Motional emfs; Transformers; Mutual and Self-inductances; Energy
stored in a Magnetic Field; LR Circuits.
Week 12 21/03/22 - 25/03/22 Magnetic Media: Magnetic properties of matter; Ferromagnetism, Paramagnetism
and Diamagnetism.
Week 13 28/03/22 - 01/04/22 Alternating Current Circuits: RMS quantities; ACcircuits of single elements;
RLC circuits; Resonance in ac circuits.
Week 14 04/04/22 - 08/04/22 REVISION

RECOMMENDED TEXT BOOKS


i. Electromagnetism and Modern Physics for Year One University Students of Science and Engineering
by PWSC
ii. Fundamentals of Physics by David Halliday and Robert Resnick
iii. University Physics by Francis Sears and Mark Zemansky

Dr. S. C. Udensi
Coordinator , PHY 102 (2020/2021)

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