| Electrostatics: Coulomb's Law and the electric field; Electric flux and Gauss's Law. Electric potential, and the relationship between field and potential. Capacitors and electrical energy storage. Calculations of the electric field, electric potential and capacitance in simple cases.
Magnetostatics: Magnetic fields and forces generated by a conductor; Biot-Savart and Ampere's Laws and applications to calculation of magnetic fields; Forces between currents, torque on a current loop. The magnetic dipole, torque and P.E in a magnetic field.
Time varying fields: Magnetic Induction, Faraday's Law and Lenz's Law; generators and alternators. Inductance and energy storage in inductors. Self and mutual inductance.
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Administrative assistant: RAINA FERHANA HOSSENBUX
Telephone: 4037400
Email: r.hossenbux@uom.ac.mu |
