Undergraduate Course: Electromagnetism (PHYS09018)
Course Outline
| School | School of Physics and Astronomy |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 9 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 10 |
| Home subject area | Undergraduate (School of Physics and Astronomy) |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
http://www2.ph.ed.ac.uk/teaching/course-notes/notes/list/76 |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | A course on the time-independent and time-dependent properties of electric and magnetic fields in vacuum, leading to Maxwell's Equations, which encompass the laws of classical electromagnetism. These laws are used to derive electromagnetic waves. |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2012/13 Semester 2, Available to all students (SV1)
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WebCT enabled: No |
Quota: None |
| Location |
Activity |
Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
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Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| King's Buildings | Lecture | | 1-11 | 09:00 - 09:50 | | | | | | King's Buildings | Lecture | | 1-11 | | | | 09:00 - 09:50 | | | King's Buildings | Tutorial | | 2-11 | | | 11:10 - 13:00 | | |
| First Class |
First class information not currently available |
| Additional information |
Workshop/tutorial sessions, as arranged. |
| Exam Information |
| Exam Diet |
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| Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May) | | 2:00 | | | | Resit Exam Diet (August) | | 2:00 | | |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course it is intended that a student will be able to:
1)State the integral laws of electromagnetism and state and derive Maxwell's equations for charges and currents in a vacuum
2)Define and explain charge and current densities (in bulk and on surfaces and lines), and conductivity
3)Define, and use the concepts of electric and magnetic dipoles; calculate the fields from dipoles and forces and torques on them
4)Define and explain: polarisation and magnetisation; the fields D, H, E and B; the relation between E, B and the force on a particle; polarisation charges and magnetisation currents; boundary conditions on fields at interfaces between media; Maxwell's equations in media
5)Define and explain in atomic terms: the response of linear media; relative permittivity and permeability; their relation to the electromagnetic energy density; nonlinear media such as ferromagnets
6)Formulate and solve boundary-value problems using: superposition methods; uniqueness principles; the method of images; qualitative reasoning based on field lines; the equations of Biot-Savart, Faraday, Ampere, Gauss, Laplace and Poisson
7)Formulate and solve with vector calculus problems of static and time-varying electrical and magnetic fields
8)Derive and apply the concepts of: Maxwell's displacement current; the continuity equation; self- and mutual inductance; Poynting's vector; energy flux; radiation pressure
9)Derive and explain electromagnetic radiation using plane-wave solutions of Maxwell's equations; apply these to problems of intrinsic impedance, adsorption, attenuation, dispersion, reflection, transmission, evanescence, and the skin effect in conductors; derive and explain total internal reflection, polarisation by reflection, and the properties of waveguides and related devices
10)Explain and utilise the properties of the magnetic vector potential, and outline its relevance to the phenomenon of radiation |
Assessment Information
Coursework, 10%
Degree Examination, 90% |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
Not entered |
| Syllabus |
* Electrostatics: Coulomb's Law; electric fields; Gauss's Law; the scalar potential; electric field energy; capacitance; the electric dipole; surface charge and boundary problems.
* Magnetostatics: currents and charge conservation; the Lorentz force; Biot-Savart Law; Ampere's Law; the vector potential; the magnetic dipole; surface currents and boundary problems.
* Induction: electromotive force; Faraday's Law; mutual and self inductance; magnetic field energy; simple AC circuits.
* Maxwell's equations: the displacement current; electromagnetic radiation; energy in electromagnetic fields; monochromatic plane waves.
* Media: phenomenology of dielectric and magnetic materials; plane waves in media and across boundaries.
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| Transferable skills |
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| Reading list |
D.J. Griths, Introduction to Electrodynamics, 3rd Edition, Prentice Hall 1999.
Zhao Shu-ping, You Jun-han, Zhu Jun-jie, Problems and Solutions on Electromagnetism, World Scienti c, particularly parts 1,2,4. |
| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
Not entered |
| Keywords | EMag |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Martin Evans
Tel: (0131 6)50 5294
Email: |
Course secretary | Miss Laura Gonzalez-Rienda
Tel: (0131 6)51 7067
Email: |
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