Shortened List of Examination Topics

State your understanding on (each topic is one question):

Chapter 21 ELECTRIC CHARGE AND ELECTRIC FIELD
Chapter 22 GAUSS’S LAW
1. Electric Flux and Gauss’s Law; Applications of Gauss’s Law on planar, spherical and
cylindrical distributions
2. Charges on Conductors and electrostatic conditions. Electric field at the surfaces of a
conductor; charging by induction
Chapter 23 ELECTRIC POTENTIAL
3. Electric potential and electric potential difference. Calculating the electric potential. Electric
potential energy, equipotential surfaces
4. Relations between electric field vector and electric potential, potential gradient
Chapter 24 CAPACITANCE AND DIELECTRICS
5. Conductors, Capacitors, Capacitance of parallel-plate and cylindrical capacitors; Energy
Storage in Capacitors and Electric-Field Energy
Chapter 27 MAGNETIC FIELD AND MAGNETIC FORCES
6. Magnetic forces of currents, concept of magnetic field; Magnetic field vector; magnetic field
of a current element; the law of Biot and Savar, Magnetic Field of a Moving Charge
7. Magnetic Field, Magnetic Field Lines and Magnetic Flux. Motion of Charged Particles in a
Magnetic Field
Chapter 28 SOURCES OF MAGNETIC FIELD
8. Ampere’s law on the line integral of magnetic field vector around a closed path. Applications
of Amper’s law in calculating the magnetic field of currents.
Chapter 29 ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION
9. Induction Experiments, Faraday’s Law, Lenz’s Law
10. Motional Electromotive Force; Induced Electric Fields; Eddy Currents
Chapter 30 INDUCTANCE
11. Mutual Inductance, Self-Inductance and Inductors. Energy stored in a inductor, magnetic field
energy, magnetic energy density
12. R-L-C circuit, damped harmonic motion
Chapter 31 ALTERNATING CURRENT
Chapter 32 ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES
13. The system of Maxwell’s equations, the concept of electromagnetic field
14. Derivation of the wave equation Electromagnetic Wave, sinusoidal Plane Electromagnetic
Waves, polarization and the Speed of Light
Chapter 18 Kinetic-molecular theory of gases and distribution functions
 15. Kinetic-molecular model of an ideal gas. Average translational kinetic energy of a gas
molecule
16. Distribution function of molecular speeds, the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution. Average
speed, root-main square speed and the most probable speed of a gas molecule
Chapter 19 The first law of thermodynamics
17. The first law of thermodynamics and appying for kinds of thermodynamic processes: adiabatic,
isochoric, isobaric and isothermal processes
Chapter 20 The second law of thermodynamics
18. Directions of thermodynamic processes, reversible and irreversible processes. Heat engines,
thermal efficiency of an engine the Carnot cycle and quantitative expression of the second law
of thermodynamics
19. Entropy change in reversible and irreversible processes, the meaning of the second law of
thermodynamics
Chapter 20 Real gases and phase transitions
20. Differences between ideal and real gases, Van der Waals equation of state, critical point