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PHY201 Electricity and Magnetism

BS-MS 2014 Batch

Instructors: Seema Sharma and Bhas Bapat

Course Contents

Course Material

Course Contents

(Number of lectures appear in brackets.)

Action at a distance and the concept of fields. Key experimental observations. [3]
Electric field and electric potential for static charges [3]
Properties of the electric field [3]
Moving charges and free currents [2]
Magnetic fields due to currents [3]
Electromagnetic induction [2]
Mathematical Summary of electric and magnetic fields in vacuum [1]
Electric and magnetic fields in matter [3]
Conductors and insulators and fields in their vicinity [3]
Magnetic Materials and permanent magnets [3]
Maxwell's equations [2]

TOTAL 28 lectures

Tutors

Aakanksha Kapoor (aakanksha.kapoor@students.iiserpune.ac.in)
Aditee Rane (aditee.rane@students.iiserpune.ac.in)
Prachi Telang (prachi.telang@students.iiserpune.ac.in)
Vinay Hegde (vinay.hegde@students.iiserpune.ac.in)

Course Material

Books

We will mainly follow

Berekely Physics Course: Electricity and Magnetism Purcell and Morin, 3rd edition
Introduction to Electrodynamics Griffiths

Other Material

Articles on the history of Electromagnetism

A Brief History of Electromagnetism Charles Byrne
A Brief Outline of the History of Electromagnetism Richard Alan Peters II

Schedule

Week-wise schedule of lectures and quizzes
Dates	Lectures & exams
	Wed	Thu	Fri
Aug 5 – Aug 7	Lec 1	Lec 2	Lec 3
Aug 12 – Aug 14	Lec 4	Lec 5	Quiz 1 (Lec 1-3)
Aug 19 – Aug 21	Lec 6	Lec 7	Discuss Quiz 1
Aug 26 – Aug 28	Lec 8	Lec 9	Quiz 2 (Lec 4-7)
Sep 2 – Sep 4	Lec 10	Lec 11	Discuss Quiz 2
Sep 9 – Sep 11	Lec 12	Lec 13	Quiz 3 (Lec 8-11)
Sep 16 – Sep 18	Lec 14	Ganesh Chaturthi	Discuss Quiz 3
Sep 23 – Sep 25	Mid Sem Exam (Lec 1-14)		Id u'l Zuha
Sep 30 – Oct 2	Lec 15	Lec 16	Gandhi Jayanti
Oct 7 – Oct 9	Lec 17	Lec 18	Quiz 4 (Lec 15-17)
Oct 14 – Oct 16	Lec 19	Lec 20	Discuss Quiz 4
Oct 21 – Oct 23	Lec 21	Dussera & holidays
Oct 28 – Oct 30	Lec 22	Lec 23	Quiz 5 (Lec 18-21)
Nov 4 – Nov 6	Lec 24	Lec 25	Discuss Quiz 5
Nov 11 – Nov 13	Diwali	Lec 26	Quiz 6 (Lec 22-25)
Nov 18 – Nov 20	Lec 27	Lec 28	End Sem Exam
Nov 25 – Nov 27	Guru Nanak Jayanti	End Sem Exams

Evaluation

Course evaluation scheme
a.	End-sem examination	30%
b.	Mid-sem examination	30%
c.	Quizzes	40%

Quizzes, Exams

14-08-2015 Quiz 1 (Vectors, Coulomb's Law, Electric Field, Electric Potential) Solution