Course Details in 2024/25 Session

Module Title	LI Electromagnetism 2
School	Physics and Astronomy
Department	Physics & Astronomy
Module Code	03 00953
Module Lead	Prof Evgueni Goudzovski
Level	Intermediate Level
Credits	10
Semester	Semester 2
Pre-requisites	LC Electromagnetism and Temperature and Matter - (03 19750)
Co-requisites
Restrictions	None
Contact Hours	Lecture-24 hours Guided independent study-76 hours Total: 100 hours
Exclusions
Description	The 19th century saw mankind's greatest advances in the understanding of electricity and magnetism thanks to pure research carried out by the likes of Faraday, Ampère and Maxwell. Indeed, according to Feynman, the most significant event of the 19th century was Maxwell's four equations for electromagnetic fields published between 1855 and 1865. These four equations described the whole of electricity and magnetism and, for the first time, unified the electric and magnetic forces into one theory of electromagnetism. Maxwell also used these equations to show that light was an electromagnetic wave and accurately predicted the velocity of light. His equations also showed that electromagnetic waves were Lorentz invariant some forty years before Einstein.
Learning Outcomes	By the end of the module the student should be able to: Apply the laws of Gauss, Faraday and Ampère to problems involving charges and magnetic fields; Have a firm grounding of Maxwell's equations and their origins; Apply and solve Maxwell's equations to electromagnetic problems; Show that electric and magnetic fields can travel as waves in free space and media; Calculate the major laws of optics using electromagnetic theory; Apply Maxwell's equations in order to derive the conductivity of conductors and plasmas; Use Poynting's vector to calculate the power in an electromagnetic wave.
Assessment	00953-01 : Exam : Exam (Centrally Timetabled) - Written Unseen (80%) 00953-02 : Assessed problems : Coursework (20%)
Assessment Methods & Exceptions	Coursework (20%); 1.5 hour Examination (80%)
Other	none
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