PHYS 262 - General Physics II: Electricity and Magnetism

• Solve mechanical and electrical oscillating system problems.
• Use Excel or a similar computational graphing tool to graph and fit curves.
• Find solutions to simple resistive DC circuits using KVL and KCL.
• Measure Hooke’s Law parameters for a mass-spring system and make comparisons to the electrical analogy for such in a system to AC circuits.
• Demonstrate understanding of Ohm’s Law for resistors, and also the constitutive defining relations for capacitors and inductors.
• Combine resistances and capacitances in series and parallel.
• Compute resistances, capacitances, and inductances for simple geometries and understand the effect of conductive, dielectric, and magnetic media for such geometries.
• Verify Ohm’s Law and Kirchoff’s Laws by using typical electrical measurement devices which measure currents, voltages, resistances, etc.
• Use Coulomb’s Law to calculate electric forces and electric fields due to point charges and continuous charge distributions.
• Use Gauss’s Law to calculate electric fields for highly symmetric continuous charge distributions.
• Demonstrate understanding of the fundamental operating principles of a Cathode Ray Tube.
• Use the Coulomb’s Law form of electric potential to compute the electric potential for point charges and continuous charge distributions.
• Compute the potential differences due to a given electric field.
• Solve simple problems involving electric energy and work.
• Demonstrate understanding of the field viewpoint versus the action-at-a-distance viewpoint of electric and magnetic forces.
• Apply Faraday’s Law and Lenz’s Law to problems with magnetic fields, both with constant and time-dependent magnetic flux.
• Solve simple DC-Circuit problems such as RC, RL, RLC circuits with various characteristics involving the “charging”, “discharging”, and “relaxation” of such circuits.
• Solve simple AC-Circuit problems involving characteristics such as impedances, resonance, power, phase, etc.
• Use the oscilloscope to measure time-varying voltages, frequencies, periods, amplitudes, phase, etc.
• Analyze and measure major circuit characteristics for RC, RL, RLC circuits driven by a square wave, and also sinusoidal AC-circuit configurations.
• Compute the magnetic forces on moving charges and wires.
• Use Biot-Savart Law to compute the magnetic field for simple current distributions.
• Use Ampere’s Law to solve simple problems computing the magnetic field.

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