• Electricity and magnetism: electrostatics, electric field, Gauss law, electric potential, capacitors and dielectrics, Ohm's Law, RC circuits, magnetic field, Ampere's Law, Faraday's Law, inductance, magnetic properties of matter, Maxwell's equations. Waves: mechanical waves, linear chain of oscillators, transverse waves in a string, acoustics in gas or liquid, boundary conditions, standing waves, frequency spectrum, phase and group velocity, interference and diffraction, Bragg scattering, electromagnetic waves in vacuum and in matter, polarization, energy of waves.

  • 22-23 Spring

22-23 Spring