Course

Engineering Physics II (core science)

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

The course covers lessons in Electricity and magnetism, Rectangular cartesian coordinate system, Scalar Field, Mathematical preliminaries, Scalar field and Vector field, Epsilon naught, Principle of superposition, Coulomb law, Expression for the electric field, Electrostatic phenomena, Additive constant, Macroscopic fields, Electrostatics in media, Permittivity in a medium, Conductors and Dielectrics, Motion of steady currents, Wave Equation, Monochromatic plane wave, Interference experiments.

Course topics:

  1. Electricity and magnetism
  2. Rectangular cartesian coordinate system
  3. Scalar Field
  4. Mathematical preliminaries
  5. Scalar field and Vector field
  6. Epsilon naught
  7. Principle of superposition
  8. Coulomb law
  9. Expression for the electric field
  10. Electrostatic phenomena
  11. Additive constant
  12. Electro static energy
  13. Macroscopic fields
  14. Electrostatics in media
  15. Permittivity in a medium
  16. Conductors and Dielectrics
  17. Phenomenological law
  18. Drift velocity
  19. Motion of steady currents
  20. Perturbation theory
  21. Discrete charges
  22. Effect of the currents
  23. Lorentz force expression
  24. Paramagnetism
  25. Dependent charge density
  26. Wave Equation
  27. Monochromatic plane wave
  28. Interference experiments
Course Lectures