Physcis
Physcis
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Course Outline:
Electric force and its applications and related problems, conservation of charge, charge
quantization, Electric fields due to point charge and lines of force. Ring of charge, Disk
of charge, A point charge in an electric field, Dipole in a n electric field, The flux of
vector field, The flux of electric field, Gauss’ Law, Application of Gauss’ Law, Spherically
symmetric charge distribution, A charge isolated conductor, Electric potential energy,
Electric potentials, Calculating the potential from the field and related problem Potential
due to point and continuous charge distribution, Potential due to dipole, equipotential
surfaces, Calculating the field from the potential
, Electric current, Current density, Resistance, Resistivity and conductivity, Ohm’s law
and its applications, The Hall effect, The magnetic force on a current, The Biot- Savart law,
Line of B, Two parallel conductors, Amperes’ s Law, Solenoid, Toroids, Faraday’s
experiments, Faraday’s Law of Induction, Lenz’s law, Motional emf, Induced electric
field, Induced electric fields, The basic equation of electromagnetism, Induced
Magnetic field, The displacement current, Reflection and Refraction of light waves,
Total internal reflection, Two source interference, Double Slit interference, related
problems, Interference from thin films, Diffraction and the wave theory, related
problems, Single-Slit Diffraction, related problems, Polarization of electromagnetic
waves, Polarizing sheets, related problems.
Reference Materials: (or use any other standard and latest books)
1. Fundamentals of Physics (Extended), 10th edition, Resnick and Walker
2. Narciso Garcia, Arthur Damask, Steven Schwarz., “Physics for Computer Science
Students”, Springer Verlag, 1998.