Electricity And Magnetism
PHYS-40024
Apply the Basic Laws of Electricity, Magnetism, and Optics
This calculus-based physics course is intended to help students acquire interdisciplinary skills to bridge the gap between natural sciences, engineering, and increasingly demanding technological aspects of modern medicine.
It provides the coverage of properties of electric fields, potentials, steady-state and transient currents, as well as properties of dielectrics, magnetic fields, and propagation of electromagnetic fields. This course's primary goal is to apply electricity and magnetism knowledge to explain natural physical processes and related technological advances
Course Highlights:
- Electric charge interactions (Coulomb's law)
- Distribution of electric charges and static electric field (Gauss's law)
- Electric potential and motion of charged particles
- Capacitance and dielectrics
- Direct electric current and Ohm's law
- Magnetic field, sources, and Ampere's law
- Inductance and Faraday's law
- Alternating electric current circuits
- Electromagnetic waves and Maxwell's equations
- Interference and diffraction
Course Benefits:
- Explain concepts of electric and magnetic fields and electric potential
- Explain capacitance and classify capacitors as energy-storing devices
- Analyze direct current (DC) and alternating current (AC) circuits
- Apply the Lorentz force law to analyze the motion of charged particles
- Identify the sources of magnetic field
- Compute the inductance of conductors and apply the law of electromagnetic induction
- Apply Maxwell's equations and derive wave equation
- Analyze interference and diffraction of electromagnetic waves
Course Typically Offered: Online, every quarter
Prerequisites: Previous knowledge in introductory vector, differential, and integral calculus and/or have taken Mechanics and Thermodynamics course.
More information: Contact infotech@ucsd.edu to learn more about our programs and other course offerings.
Course Information
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This course is entirely web-based and to be completed asynchronously between the published course start and end dates. Synchronous attendance is NOT required.
You will have access to your online course on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start date.
Textbooks:
Fundamentals of Physics: Extended, 11th Edition 11th
by Halliday, Resnick, Walker
ISBN / ASIN: 9781119306856
You may purchase textbooks via the UC San Diego Bookstore.
Policies:
- No refunds after: 4/7/2025
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Instructor:
Dragan Nikolic
Dragan Nikolic is a scientist at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he conducts research and technology development of planetary surface instruments. His current focus is developing advanced aerosol inlets for mass spectrometers to be used in aerobot exploration of Venus cloud decks. He published 72 articles in peer-reviewed journals and 30 conference proceedings, holds three patents, published three textbooks and six scientific reports, and has given 35 invited talks at international conferences and workshops. He is a member of the American Physical Society, Canadian Association of Physicists, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MENSA, American Chemical Society, and previously served as Editor for the XXVI International Conference on Photonic, Electronic, and Atomic Collisions.
Dragan holds an MSc in plasma physics from the University of Belgrade (Serbia) and a Ph.D. in atomic physics from Stockholm University (Sweden). He received the Michael Idvorsky Pupin Award in 2004 and upheld Professional Physicist Certification from the Canadian Association of Physicists since 2010.
Section ID:
Class type:
This course is entirely web-based and to be completed asynchronously between the published course start and end dates. Synchronous attendance is NOT required.
You will have access to your online course on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start date.
Textbooks:
Fundamentals of Physics: Extended, 11th Edition 11th
by Halliday, Resnick, Walker
ISBN / ASIN: 9781119306856
You may purchase textbooks via the UC San Diego Bookstore.
Policies:
- No refunds after: 6/30/2025
Schedule:
Instructor:
Dragan Nikolic
Dragan Nikolic is a scientist at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he conducts research and technology development of planetary surface instruments. His current focus is developing advanced aerosol inlets for mass spectrometers to be used in aerobot exploration of Venus cloud decks. He published 72 articles in peer-reviewed journals and 30 conference proceedings, holds three patents, published three textbooks and six scientific reports, and has given 35 invited talks at international conferences and workshops. He is a member of the American Physical Society, Canadian Association of Physicists, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MENSA, American Chemical Society, and previously served as Editor for the XXVI International Conference on Photonic, Electronic, and Atomic Collisions.
Dragan holds an MSc in plasma physics from the University of Belgrade (Serbia) and a Ph.D. in atomic physics from Stockholm University (Sweden). He received the Michael Idvorsky Pupin Award in 2004 and upheld Professional Physicist Certification from the Canadian Association of Physicists since 2010.
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