Entry requirements

Algebra and Geometry. Calculus of One Variable, Calculus of Several Variables. Mechanics I.

Content

Electrostatics: Electric charge, Coulomb's law, electric field and potential, the displacement vector, Gauss's law, capacitance, electric potential and field from electric dipole, polarisation, dielectrics, electrostatic energy, forces in capacitors, capacitor batteries.

Electric current: current density, the continuity equation, Ohm's law, Kirchhoff's laws, Joule's law,

emf, charging and discharging of

capacitors.

Stationary electromagnetism: magnetic field, magnetic force, Biot-Savart's law, magnetic dipoles, magnetic polarisation, dia-, para- and ferromagnetism, hysteresis, hysteresis loss, magnetic circuits, permanent magnets, boundary conditions of the magnetic fields.

Electromagnetic induction: Faraday's law, Lenz' law, self-induction, magnetic field energy, currents in R-L circuits, mutual inductance. Maxwell's equations.

Alternating currents : phase diagrams, the

jw- method, complex power, the transformer.

Laboratory work: Oscilloscope, Capacitance experiments, Magnetic fields, Induction, Hysteresis,

Alternating current.

Instruction

Lectures, lessons and laboratory work.

Assessment

Written examination at the end of the course. Approved laboratory work required.