PH 205 - Electromagnetism/Optic w/Lab

Prerequisites: PH 150 and M 118. Corequisite: PH 205L - you must enroll in a section of PH 205L before you can enroll in PH 205 Basic concepts of electricity and magnetism; Coulomb’s law, electric field and potential, Gauss’s law, Ohm’s law, Kirchoff’s rules, capacitance, magnetic field, Ampere’s law, Faraday’s law of induction, Maxwell’s equations, electromagnetic waves. Fundamentals of optics; light, laws of reflection and refraction, interference and diffraction phenomena, polarization, gratings, lenses and optical instruments. Laboratory fee. 4 credits