Week Topics Remarks

1 Introduction to course overview During the class, expectations of student

(Electricity and Magnetism).
2-3 Electrostatics:
Conservation law of electric charges, electrons  What are conductors and insulators
and electrostatics, Coulomb’s law, electric field  Be able to explain more about electric
and forces, electric field line, electric dipoles,
charged particles in an electric field, charge and
electric flux,
4 Gauss’s law and its applications, electric
potential, electric potential due to a single
charge, electric potential due to a dipole,
electric potential due to continuous charge
distribution, equipotential surfaces.
5 Conductors and currents:
Electric current, resistors and resistance,
electric power, capacitors in series and parallel,
energy storage in capacitors and electric field
energy, Gauss’s law in dielectrics.
6 Magnetism:
magnetic field, magnetic field lines and
magnetic flux, motion of a charged particles in
a magnetic field, magnetic force on a current
carry conductor,
7 Mid Semester Test
from the course will be discussed
 What is electrostatics?
field.
 What is electricity?
 What are the difference between pd
and emf,
 Explain more about the element of
electricity.
 Solve problems concerning parallel,
series plate and energy stored in a
capacitor.
 What is magnetic field?
 Explain the magnetic and non-
magnetic materials,
 Explain the magnetic induction
processes and the magnetic flux.
Week Topics Remarks

8&9 Ampere’s law, Biot Savart law,  Understand the concept of

electromagnetic induction, inductance, self- electromagnetic induction
inductance, mutual inductance,

10 Maxwell’s equation, electromagnetic waves  Explain the applications of

and oscillations. waves in our day to day life,
 Explain the propagation of
electromagnetic waves,
 Solve simple problems
involving Maxwell’s equations.
11 End of Semester Test