8.02 | Spring 2007 | Undergraduate

Physics II: Electricity and Magnetism

Class Slides

WEEK # SES # TOPICS CLASS SLIDES CONCEPT QUESTIONS
1 1 Introduction to TEAL; Fields; Review of gravity; Electric field (PDF) (PDF)
2 Electric charge; Electric fields; Dipoles; Continuous charge distributions (PDF) (PDF)
3 Coordinate systems; Gradients; Line and surface integrals    
2 4 Working in groups, electric potential, E from V (PDF) (PDF)
5 Electric potential, equipotentials (PDF) (PDF)
6 Continuous charge distributions    
3 7 Gauss’s law (PDF) (PDF)
8 Gauss’s law (cont.) (PDF) (PDF)
4 9 Conductors and capacitors    
10 Capacitors (PDF) (PDF)
11 Capacitors (cont.)    
5 12 Current, Resistance, and DC circuits (PDF) (PDF)
13 Exam 1 information (PDF) (PDF)
6 14 Magnetic fields: Creating magnetic fields - Biot-Savart (PDF) (PDF)
15 Magnetic fields: Creating magnetic fields - Ampere’s Law (PDF - 1.1 MB) (PDF)
16 Ampere’s law    
7 17 Magnetic fields: Feeling magnetic fields - charges and dipoles (PDF) (PDF)
18 Magnetic levitation; Magnetic forces on dipoles (PDF - 1.4 MB) (PDF)
19 Magnetic fields: Force and torque on a current loop    
8 20 Faraday’s law (PDF)  
21 Faraday’s law (cont.) (PDF)  
22 Mutual inductance and transformers; Inductors    
9 23 Inductors and magnetic energy; RL circuits (PDF) (PDF)
24 Exam 2 information (PDF) (PDF)
10 25 RC and RL circuits (PDF) (PDF)
26 RC and RL circuits (cont.) (PDF) (PDF)
11 27 LC, and undriven LRC circuits   (PDF)
28 Driven LRC circuits (PDF) (PDF)
29 Driven LRC circuits (cont.)    
12 30 Maxwell’s equations, EM radiation and energy flow (PDF)  
31 Maxwell’s equations, EM radiation and energy flow (cont.) (PDF) (PDF)
32 EM radiation    
13 33 Generating EM radiation (PDF - 2.9 MB) (PDF)
34 Exam 3 information (PDF - 1.4 MB)  
14 35 Interference   (PDF)
36 Final exam (PDF) (PDF)

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