Course Identification
Physics module: Advanced electromagnetism
Lecturers and Teaching Assistants
Prof. Oren Raz
Dr. Roi Holtzman, Omer Chor, Shahaf Aharony Shapira
Course Schedule and Location
Second Semester
Tuesday, 09:15 - 12:15, Science Teaching Lab 3
26/03/2024
Field of Study, Course Type and Credit Points
Science Teaching (non thesis MSc Track): Lecture; Obligatory; Regular; 3.50 points
Prerequisites
Electromagnetism course in BSc studies
Restrictions
For students in the Rothschild-Weizmann program only
Attendance and participation
Estimated Weekly Independent Workload (in hours)
Syllabus
- Electrostatics: charges and fields
- The electric potential
- Electric fields around conductors
- Electric currents, electric conductance, and electric circuits
- The magnetic field and electromagnetic induction
- Maxwell's equations
- Electromagnetic waves
- Electric and magnetic fields in matter
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course students should be able to:
- Understand the basic rules of forces between electric charges and currents
- Know how to apply these rules to electric circuits
- Understand the relation between moving charges and magnetic fields
- Understand how Maxwell's equations arise from generalizations of experimental observations and more specific rules for particular cases.
- See how Maxwell's equations predict electromagnetic waves
- Understand the effect of dielectric and diamagnetic materials on electric and magnetic fields.
Reading List
Bibliography:
- Electricity and Magnetism, E. M. Purcell and D. J. Morin, 3rd edition, Cambrige University Press, 2013 (This is the latest edition of the Berkely Electromagnetism Course. Older editions may be used as well, though they use a different units convention)