PHYS 2205 - Electromagnetism and Optics with Laboratory

Prerequisites: PHYS 1150, MATH 1118. Co-requisite: PHYS 2206 - you must enroll in a section of PHYS 2206 before you can enroll in PHYS 2205. 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.

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