Course Details
Course Information Package
Course Unit Title | ELECTROMAGNETISM AND OPTICS WITH LAB | ||||||||
Course Unit Code | APHY112 | ||||||||
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Number of ECTS credits allocated | 5 | ||||||||
Learning Outcomes of the course unit | By the end of the course, the students should be able to:
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Mode of Delivery | Face-to-face | ||||||||
Prerequisites | AMAT122,APHY111 | Co-requisites | NONE | ||||||
Recommended optional program components | NONE | ||||||||
Course Contents | Review: Basic concepts of electricity, atomic structure. Electrostatics: Coulomb’s Law, electric field intensity due to one or more point charges, electric potential, motion of a point charge in a uniform electric field. Further electrostatics: Gauss Law and applications, capacitors and combination of capacitors, electrostatic energy of charged capacitors, dielectrics. Dynamic electricity: Electric current, resistance and Ohm's Law, resistivity of conductors, combination of resistances. Direct Current Circuits: Electromotive force (EMF), Kirchhoff’s rules, power, potential across resistors, RC circuits. Magnetism: Definition of magnetic field, magnetic field at a point due to current carrying wires (Biot-Savart Law) and closed loop wires (Ampere’s Law), magnetic forces on current carrying parallel/antiparallel wires, motion of a charged particle in a constant magnetic field. Optics: The nature of light, measurement of the speed light, Huygen's principle, reflection, refraction, and polarization. Geometrical Optics: Convex and concave mirrors, thin lenses, optical instruments. Laboratory Work: Small group experiments on: Electrostatic Charge, Ohm’s Law, Exploratory Study of Resistance, Resistances in Circuits, EMF, Kirchhoff's Rules, Resistor – Capacitor Network, Wheatstone Bridge, Law of Reflection, Law of Refraction. | ||||||||
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods | Lectures are delivered to the students by means of computer presentations including images, simulations, and videos. Lecture notes and presentations are available through the web for students to be used in combination with the textbooks. Lectures begin with real-life observations challenging the students for explanation to guide them to the new physics concept and to investigate its principles and variables. Problems are presented and solved in the class while further problems are given for practice. Lectures are supplemented by ten laboratory exercises to investigate, test, and verify the taught physics principles, laws and methodologies. | ||||||||
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Language of instruction | English | ||||||||
Work placement(s) | NO |