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3 - Course Hand Book
3 - Course Hand Book
Department of Physics
COURSE HANDBOOK
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Recommended Books:
1. Fundamentals of Physics, by David Halliday, Resnick and Walker/Krane
3. H.D. Young and R.G. Freedman, Physics for Scientists and Engineers
Lecture Schedule
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Weeks Topic of Lecture Reading
Assignment
Week 1 Introduction to Electrostatics
Electric charge Text book
Conductors and insulators
Coulomb’s law Chapter # 21
Charge is quantized
Charge is conserved Pg. # 562-572
Finding the electric Field
The electric field Chapter # 22
Electric field lines
Electric field due to point charge Pg.# 581-583
Week 2 Finding the Electric Field
Electric field due to an electric dipole Chapter # 22
The electric field due to a line of charge
The electric field due to a charged Disk Pg. # 585-594
Finding the Electric Field
A point charge in an electric field
A dipole in an electric field
Week 3 Finding the Electric Field
Flux Chapter # 23
The flux of an electric field
Gauss’ law and Coulomb’s law
Applying Gauss’ law: cylindrical symmetry Pg. # 606-618
Finding the Electric Field Slides
Applying Gauss’ law planar symmetry
Applying Gauss’ law: spherical symmetry
Week 4 Finding the Electric Potential
Electric potential energy
Electric potential
Equipotential surfaces
Finding the Electric Potential
Calculating the potential from the field
Potential due to point charge
Potential due to group of point charges
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Week 5 Finding the Electric Potential
Chapter # 24
Potential due to an electric dipole
Potential due continuous charge distribution
Pg. # 637-641
Finding the Electric Potential
Calculating the field from the potential
Electric potential energy of a system of point
charges
Potential of a charged isolated conductor
Week 6 Ohm’s Law
Chapter # 26
Electric current
Current density
Resistance and resistivity
Ohm’s law Pg. # 683-693
A microscopic view of Ohm’s law
Conductivity
Magnetic Force Chapter # 28
What produces a magnetic Field?
The definition of B Pg. # 736-741
Hall Effect
Week 7 Magnetic Force
Chapter # 28
A circulating charge particle
Cyclotron and synchrotron
Magnetic force on a current-carrying wire Pg. # 743-750
Magnetic Force
Torque on a current loop Pg. # 751-754
The magnetic dipole moment
Week 8 Current- produced Magnetic fields
Calculating the magnetic Field due to a current Chapter # 29
Force Between two parallel currents
Ampere’s law
Current- produced Magnetic Fields Pg. # 765-772
The Biot-Savart law
Solenoids & Toroids
A current carrying coil as a magnetic dipole Pg. # 776-778
Week 9 Inductance
Faraday’s experiments Chapter # 30
Faraday‘s law of induction
Lenz’s law Pg. #. 792-795
Inductance
Emf
Induced emf and motional emf Pg. # 798-806
Induced electric fields
Inductors and inductance
Self induction
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Week 10 Basic theory and principle of electromagnetic waves
The travelling electromagnetic waves:
Qualitatively
The travelling electromagnetic waves:
Quantitatively
Basic theory and principle of electromagnetic waves
Radiation pressure
The basic equations of electromagnetism
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Week 1 1. Color coding of resistors, calculating the values and verifying the
checking and verification the values with ohm meter
The minimum pass marks for this course shall be 50%. Students obtaining less than 50%
marks in this course shall be deemed to have failed in the course. The correspondence
between letter grades, credit points, and percentage marks at CIIT shall be as follows:
Grades Letter Grade Credit Points Percentage Marks
A (Excellent) 3.67 - 4.00 85 and above
A- 3.34 - 3.66 80 - 84
B+ 3.01 - 3.33 75 - 79
B (Good) 2.67 - 3.00 71 - 74
B- 2.34 - 2.66 68 - 70
C+ 2.01 - 2.33 64 - 67
C (Average) 1.67 - 2.00 61 - 63
C- 1.31 - 1.66 58 - 60
D+ (Minimum passing) 1.01 - 1.30 54 - 57
D 0.10 - 1.00 50 - 53
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F (Failing) 0.00 Below 50
Note: The marks to be assigned to students shall be in whole numbers and are not same as
followed in the annual system of Lancaster University.
15. Assessment Schedule
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it as if it were, e.g.:
a. purchase of a paper from a commercial service, including internet sites,
whether pre-written or specially prepared for the student concerned
b. submission of a paper written by another person, either by a fellow student
or a person who is not a member of the university;
3. duplication (of one’s own work) of the same or almost identical work for more than
one module;
4. the act of copying or paraphrasing a paper from a source text, whether in
manuscript, printed or electronic form, without appropriate acknowledgement (this
includes quoting directly from another source with a reference but without quotation
marks);
5. submission of another student’s work, whether with or without that student’s
knowledge or consent;
6. Directly quoting from model solutions/answers made available in previous years;
7. cheating in class tests, e.g.
a. when a candidate communicates, or attempts to communicate, with a fellow
candidate or individual who is neither an invigilator or member of staff
b. copies, or attempts to copy from a fellow candidate
c. attempts to introduce or consult during the examination any unauthorised printed
or written material, or electronic calculating, information storage device, mobile
phones or other communication device
d. Personates or allows him or her to be impersonated.
8. Fabrication of results occurs when a student claims to have carried out tests,
experiments or observations that have not taken place or presents results not
supported by the evidence with the object of obtaining an unfair advantage.
These definitions apply to work in whatever format it is presented, including written work,
online submissions, group work and oral presentations.
20. Attendance Policy
Every student must attend 90% of the lectures delivered in this course and 90% of the
practical/laboratory work prescribed for this course. The students falling short of required
percentage of attendance of lectures/practical/laboratory work, etc., shall not be allowed to
appear in the terminal examination of this course and shall be treated as having failed this
course.
In case of illness or other unavoidable cause of absence, the student must communicate as
soon as possible with the instructor, indicating the reason for the absence. Prolonged illness
of three or more consecutive days must have a medical certificate sent to the department.
Excessive absence may result in failure or immediate withdrawal from the course or
programme.
20b Makeup Test, Exams or Quizzes
There will be no makeup tests, exams or quizzes. If you miss a test, exam or quiz, you will
receive zero marks. Exceptions may be made for extenuating circumstances or for medical
reasons documented by “Student Medical Certificate”. In such a case, it is the responsibility
of the student to inform the course instructor immediately.
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21. Field Trips/Case Studies/Seminars/Workshop
N/A