BGU Physics Department

Physics 2A Courses

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Course Plan

Topics

Week	Topic	Chapter
1	preface and Coulomb's law: The structure of matter, electric charge and its conservation law, the electrostatic approximation, coulomb's law, potential energy of electrostatic charge distribution	23, 25
2	The electric field: The electric field of a point charge, the electric field of point charge distributions and the superposition principle, continuous charge distributions, electric dipole	23
3	Electric flux and Gauss's law: The flux of a vector field, the Integral Gauss's law and it's applications, the electric field of conductors	24
4-5	Electric Potential: point charge, dipole, continuous charge distribution, the electric field as the gradient of the electric potential, the electric potential of conductors, the flow of charge over potential difference, ground, capacitance and capacitors, emf	25, 26
6	Electric current and resistance:Current, current density vector, conductivity, resistivity and Ohms law, Drude model,electric power	27
7	Magnetic fields and Magnetic force : magnetic force on a charged particle and current, magnetic torque on a current loop	29
8	Sources of the magnetic field: Bio-Savard and Ampere laws and applications, force between two parallel conductors, displacement Current	30
9	Induction: Motional emf, Faraday's law, Lenz's law, Induced emf and electric fields, self induction	31, 32
10	Electromagnetic Waves: Waves in one dimension, the one dimensional wave equation, Maxwell equations, electromagnetic plane waves, Poynting vector (optional)	16, 34
11	Special theory of relativity: Postulates, time dilation and length contraction, Lorentz transformation	39
12	relativistic mass and momentum relativistic energy, magnetism as a relativistic phenomenon	39

Formula sheet

Sources

D. Halliday, R. Resnick, K. S. Krane, Fundamentals of Physics , Part 2, 9th/7th editions

Remarks

All the courses in this category have the same syllabus, i.e. the lecture material is the same.

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