Module Identifier | PH02510 | ||
Module Title | INTRODUCTION TO ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM | ||
Academic Year | 2002/2003 | ||
Co-ordinator | C Osbourne | ||
Semester | Semester 2 | ||
Other staff | Mr Barry Henley | ||
Pre-Requisite | GCSE Mathematics and Science, or equivalent | ||
Co-Requisite | None | ||
Mutually Exclusive | Not available to students on 3 year BSc (Hons) or 4 year MPhys schemes | ||
Course delivery | Lecture | 22 Hours | |
Seminars / Tutorials | 3 Hours Tutorial. | ||
Assessment | Semester Exam | End of semester examination | 80% |
Semester Assessment | Continuous Assessment: Example classes in weeks 3,6,8, & 11 | 20% |
Positive and negative charge
Conductors, insulators and semiconductors
Coulomb's Law
Electric field, potential and equipotentials
Force on and motion of charged particle in a uniform electric field
Charge and discharge of capacitors, time constant and half life decay
Capacitors - construction, series and parallel combinations, stored energy.
DC Electricity:
Current and resistance;resistance, Ohm's Law, resistivity, ammeters, voltmeters
DC circuits - resistors in series and parallel, internal resistance, energy, power
Potential dicider circuits
Kirchoff's rules.
AC Electricity:
AC currents in resistive, capacitive and inductive circuits; reactance and impedence
Analysis of AC circuits using phasor diagrams, vector methods and complex numbers
Power and phase angle
RCL circuits in series and parallel, conditions for resonance