Syllabus 1999

Electrostatics I: Coulomb's law, The electric field, Linearity and superposition, Lines of force - Electric flux, Gauss's law, Work in an electric field, Electric potential, Calculation of E from V, The capacitor, Electric field energy.

Review of vectors: Vector algebra, Vector calculus.

Electrostatics II: Summary of properties of E, The equations of Poisson and Laplace, Physical meaning of Ñ ². Properties of conductors, Validity of the inverse square law.

Steady Currents: Current density vector, Equation of continuity, Conductivity, Ohm's law, Power dissipation, Kirchhoff's laws, Laplace's equation (in conductors).

Magnetic Effects of Currents: The Biot-Savart law, Magnetic field, Field of a long wire, Force between two long parallel wires, The Lorentz force, Ampère's law, The curl of B, The divergence of B.

Maxwell's equations: Faraday's law, Displacement current, Maxwell's equations, EM waves in free space.

Elementary electrodynamics: Motion of a charge in an electric field, Motion of a charge in a magnetic field, The cyclotron, The magnetron, Velocity selector.
Electric and magnetic dipoles: Electric dipoles, Electric potential and field of a dipole, Dipole in a uniform and non-uniform E field, Magnetic dipoles and current loops, Magnetic field of a dipole, Energy of a dipole in a magnetic field.

Magnetic fields: Field in a solenoid, Self inductance, Mutual inductance, Coupling coefficient, Energy of a magnetic field.

Books: W J Duffin, Electricity and Magnetism, McGraw-Hill

D Lorrain, D R Corson & F Lorrain, Electromagnetic Fields and Waves, Freeman.