PHY 212 Syllabus- Univ Physics_ Electricity & Magnetism-

Advanced Program – 2nd Semester 2016-2017

Instructor: Mai Ba Loc, PhD
Lecturer, Division of Electrical Machines and Apparatus
Faculty of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, HCMUT
Room 300A, Building B1
Email: maibalocmail@yahoo.com, mbloc@hcmut.edu.vn
Lectures: 1 session/week, 3 hours/session
Tutorials: 15×45 minutes
Homeworks: 15%; Quizzes: 15%; Midterm Exam: 30%; Final Exam: 40%

Lecture 1 Course Overview - Introduction to ElectroMagnetics - Vector Analysis

Lecture 2 Electrostatics: Charges, Coulomb’s Law, Electric Field, Discrete and Continuous Charge
Distributions; Electrostatic Potential
Lecture 3 Electrostatics: Electric Flux, Electric Flux Density, Gauss’s Law and Applications,
Divergence and Divergence Theorem
Lecture 4 Electrostatic Potential; Energy Exchanges, Gradient, and Energy in a System of Charges
Lecture 5 Moving Charges (Current), Conductors, Ohm’s Law, Resistance, Semiconductors,
Dielectrics and Capacitance, Dielectric Materials and Permittivity
Lecture 6 Biot-Savart Law, Ampere’s Circuital Law, Curl, Stokes’ Theorem, Magnetic Flux Density
Vector, Vector Magnetic Potential, Maxwell’s Equations
Lecture 7 Magnetic Force; Magnetic Polarization, Magnetic Dipole, Magnetic Material, Reluctance,
 Magnetic Circuits, and Inductance
Lecture 8 Faraday’s Law Of Electromagnetic Induction; Time Varying Fields, Potential Functions,
and Boundary Relations
Lecture 9 Uniform Plane Wave Solutions to Maxwell’s Equations, Electromagnetic Power Flow;
Reflection And Transmission Of Normally and Obliquely Incident Plane Waves; Useful
Theorems

Textbook: Electromagnetic Concepts & Applications (2nd Edition), Stanley V. Marshall/Gabriel G. Skitek, Prentice Hall
Inc. 1987.

Supplemental Materials: students access HCMUT BKel e-learning website << Vật lý - điện từ học_Mai Bá Lộc
(TT_HK161)>> for pdf lecture notes.

Prerequisites by Topic:
Complex algebra; vector analysis; line, surface, and volume integrals; partial differentiation

Course Objective:
Students become capable of applying fundamental electromagnetic concepts enabling their further study of advanced
courses in electrical engineering.

Homeworks- REFER to CHAPTERS AS INDICATED IN TEXTBOOK “Electromagnetic Concepts &

Applications”:

Students must submit completed homeworks to TA for grading

Chap 2: Electric Field Intensity

2.2.1; 2.2.2;

2.3.1; 2.3.2; 2.3.3;

2.4.1; 2.4.2; 2.4.3;

2.5.1; 2.5.2; 2.5.3

2.6.1; 2.6.2

Chap 3: Electric Flux- Gauss’s Law

3.2.1; 3.2.2;

3.3.1; 3.3.2; 3.3.3; 3.3.4;

3.4.1; 3.4.2; 3.4.3;

Chap 4: Energy Exchange- Potential

4.2.1;

4.3.1; 4.3.2; 4.3.3;

4.4.1; 4.4.2;

4.5.1; 4.5.2; 4.5.3

Chap 5: Conductors- Capacitance

5.5.1; 5.5.3;

5.10.1; 5.10.2; 5.10.3; 5.10.4

Chap 8: Biot Savart Law

8.3.2; 8.3.3; 8.3.5

8.4.1; 8.4.4; 8.4.5

Chap 9: Magnetic Forces

9.4.1; 9.4.2

9.8.1; 9.8.2; 9.8.3

9.9.1; 9.9.2;

9.10.3; 9.10.4

Chap 10: Faraday’s Law

10.3.1; 10.3.2; 10.3.3

10.4.1; 10.4.2; 10.4.3

10.5.1; 10.5.2

Additional Problems (p.313-314 in Textbook)

10.1; 10.2; 10.3; 10.4; 10.5; 10.6; 10.7; 10.8; 10.9