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Fall 2024
May 10, 2026 |
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| PHYS 193 - General Physics For Engineering II |
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Electrostatics: Electric charges, atomic structure, charging and induction, Coulomb’s law, the electric field and lines of force, Gauss’s law, potential and potential energy, capacitors, stored energy in capacitors. The Electric Current: Resistors, electromotive force. Magnetic Properties of Matter: Magnetic material, molecular theory of magnetism, magnetization and magnetic intensity, ferromagnetic, hysteresis. Magnetic Fields and Magnetic Forces: Magnetism and magnetic fields, magnetic flux, motion of charged particles in magnetic fields, force on a conductor, torques on current loops, Biot-Savart law, force between parallel conductors, Ampere’s law, motional electromotive force, Faraday’s law, Lenz’s law, self and mutual inductance, energy associated with inductors. Light: Nature of light, sources of light, light waves and their speed, the laws of reflection and refraction of light, absorption and illumination. Wave Phenomena: Interference, diffraction, polarization of light.
0.000 TO 3.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 TO 3.000 Lab hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lab, Lecture All Sections for this Course Physics and Materials Sciences Department Course Attributes: Science Course (TUI) |
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