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Course Info

  • Course Number / Code:
  • 8.02X (Spring 2005) 
  • Course Title:
  • Physics II: Electricity & Magnetism with an Experimental Focus 
  • Course Level:
  • Undergraduate 
  • Offered by :
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    Massachusetts, United States  
  • Department:
  • Physics 
  • Course Instructor(s):
  • Dr. Peter Dourmashkin
    Prof. Gunther Roland 
  • Course Introduction:
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  • 8.02X / ESG.802X Physics II: Electricity & Magnetism with an Experimental Focus



    Spring 2005




    Course Highlights


    This course features assignments , quizzes in exams section, and an experiment manual in labs section.


    Course Description


    This course is an introduction to electromagnetism and electrostatics. Topics include: electric charge, Coulomb's law, electric structure of matter, conductors and dielectrics, concepts of electrostatic field and potential, electrostatic energy, electric currents, magnetic fields, Ampere's law, magnetic materials, time-varying fields, Faraday's law of induction, basic electric circuits, electromagnetic waves, and Maxwell's equations. The course has an experimental focus, and includes several experiments that are intended to illustrate the concepts being studied.


    Acknowledgements


    Prof. Roland wishes to acknowledge that the structure and content of this course owe much to the contributions of Prof. Ambrogio Fasoli.

     

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