Course Content
Course Content
• Weekly 2 classes of 1.5 hours duration are conducted for 3.0 credits theory
courses.
Credit: 3
Contact Hours: 3 Hours/ Week
Pre-requisite:
• Physics (0533-111)
• Differential and Integral Calculus (0541-
111)
• Coordinate Geometry and Vector
Analysis (0541-211)
* A Course Profile will be shared with the students
Course Objectives:
• Basic Laws of Vector Analysis: Orthogonal Coordinate Systems; Transformation between Coordinate Systems
Curvilinear coordinates, rectangular, cylindrical, and spherical coordinates, Differential Length, Area and Volume;
Line, Surface and Volume Integrals; Gradient, Divergence and Curl of Fields.
• Electrostatics: Coulomb’s law, force, electric field intensity, electrical flux density. Gauss's Law with an application,
Divergence of an Electrostatic Field, Electrostatic potential, Electric Dipole, boundary conditions in Electrostatics,
Laplace's and Poisson's equations, the energy of an electrostatic system.
• Magnetostatics: Concepts of a magnetic field, Ampere's law, Stoke's Theorem, (Mid term) Vector magnetic potential,
Magnetic Dipole, Energy of a Static Magnetic Field, Completeness of Specification of Electric and Magnetic Fields.
• Maxwell's equations: Voltages induced by changing Magnetic Fields, Continuity of charge, the concept of
displacement current, physical picture of displacement current, Maxwell's Equations in Differential Equation form, in
Large Scale form, and for the periodic case. Poynting's Theorem for Energy relations in an Electromagnetic Field.
Application of Maxwell's Equations in Wave Propagation, Application of Maxwell's Equations in Penetration of
Electromagnetic Fields into a Good Conductor. Boundary Conditions for Time-Varying Systems, Wave Propagation.
Potentials used with varying charges and currents, The Retarded Potential concepts.
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