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HU Credits:
6
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department:
Physics
Semester:
Yearly
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
E. Safra
Course/Module Coordinator:
Michal Sahaf
Coordinator Office Hours:
By appointment
Teaching Staff:
Dr. Jorge Palacio
Course/Module description:
This class teaches the basic concepts related to electromagnetic fields, interactions between electric charges, and an introduction to electric circuits and waves
Course/Module aims:
The students will acquire knowledge of the main concepts and equations governing electromagnetism.
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
On successful completion of this module, students should be able to: Solve problems in electromagnetism
Attendance requirements(%):
85
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Course/Module Content:
Introduction - The forces of nature, basic principles of electricity and magnetism.
Electro-Statics:
1. Coulomb's Law, units and dimensions, charge distribution, superposition.
2. Electric field and flux - Gauss' Law (integral and differential form)
3. Gauss' Law (integral form) and divergence
4. Potential and Energy - Electrostatics, the rotor (curl), and conservative forces.
5. Poisson and Laplace equations - uniqueness and boundary conditions.
6. Conductivity - the image method.
7. Capacitance - placed in series or parallel, energy.
8. Electrostatic dipoles, the multipole expansion, forces, moment.
9. Dialectric materials and macroscopic polarization - the connection to the microscopic dipole, susceptibility, fields in polarized matter, the displacement field.
Currents and Magneto-Statics:
10. Current - current density and continuity, Darode model and resistance, Ohm's law, power, different configurations of resistors, Kirchhoff's laws.
11. Lawrence's force, the force between two wires, a charge in a a uniform magnetic field, the Hall effect.
12. Magnetism as a relativistic effect.
13. Bio-Savart's law, Ampere's law, vector potential, a current loop and the magnetic dipole.
Electrodynamics:
14. Inductance (self and mutual), RLC circuits, differential equations, transient response, impedance, the solution after a long time.
15. Displacement current.
16. Magnetic Materials.
17. A summary of Maxwell's equations - the differential and integral forms.
18. Electromagnetic waves - plane waves and stationary waves, energy flux and vector Poynting
Required Reading:
None
Additional Reading Material:
E. M. Purcell, Electricity and Magnetism, Berkeley physics Vol. 2, 2nd ed.
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 70 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 0 %
Assignments 10 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 20 %
Other 0 %
Additional information:
None
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