Faculty of Science

Objectives

To provide the fundamental principles of electricity and magnetism in the manner that is most useful to chemistry.

Contents

Electricity: Charges (elementary and units, electrostatics, Coulomb’s law, flux of an electric field, Gauss’ law, electric field due to localised charges (charge distribution), superposition principle, electric potential, potential difference, conduction electrons, electrical properties of matter, resistance, resistivity and conductivity, permittivity, Ohm’s law, factors affecting resistance of a materials (metals), resistors serial and parallel connections, energy dissipated in resistors( Joule heating), Kirchoff’s laws , capacitors , capacitance, series and parallel connections , energy stored in capacitors, Magnetism: magnetic fields, magnets and magnetic materials, force on a current-carrying conductor, Lorentz force, Biot-Savart law, Ampere’s law, torque on a current-carrying loop, dipole moment.

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