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SK1111 Electromagnetism and Waves 7.5 credits

Elektromagnetism och vågrörelselära

  • Educational level

    First cycle

  • Academic level (A-D)

    A

  • Subject area

    Physics
    Techonology

  • Grade scale

    A, B, C, D, E, FX, F

Course offerings

Autumn 13 CKEMV2CBIOT2 for programme students

Learning outcomes

After the course, the student will be able to:

  • understand and solve technical problems, relevant for their program, which are related to electrical fields, magnetic fields, mechanical waves, and electromagnetic waves
  • explain physical problems, conditions and restrictions to cooperation partners with non technical educations
  • estimate size and reasonableness in physical problems
  • use and understand restrictions in physical measurements and instruments
  • evaluate and present physical measurements in text and in diagrams.

“Physical” in the text above, means that part of physics that is included in the main content (se below).

Course main content

Electrostatics: Electric force, field and potential, Gauss’s theorem, electric field and potential in metals and dielectrics, principles of the capacitor, electrostatic energy.

Magnetism: Sources of the field, force and torque, magnetic materials and magnetic energy, technical applications, induction and inductance.

Waves: Mechanical waves and acoustics. Generation of electromagnetic waves, polarisation, interference and diffraction, coherence. Lasers. Basic geometrical optics.

Technical applications.

Eligibility

Recommended previous knowledge:
Basic courses in mechanics and mathematics

Literature

Young and Freedman: University Physics, Pearson (the edition used will be announced on the course home page at least four weeks prior to the start of the course).

Instructions to lab experiments.

Examination

  • INL1 - Hand in Assignments, 1.0 credits, grade scale: P, F
  • LAB1 - Laboratory Work, 2.0 credits, grade scale: P, F
  • TEN1 - Examination, 4.5 credits, grade scale: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F

Requirements for final grade

Written exam (TEN1; 4.5 credits, grading scale A-F)

Hand-in assignments (INL1; 1 credit, grading scale P/F)

Passed lab experiments (LAB1; 2 credits, grading scale P/F).

Offered by

SCI/Applied undergraduate Physics

Examiner

Lars-Gunnar Andersson, lga@physics.kth.se, tel. 5537 8107

Version

Course plan valid from: Autumn 08.
Examination information valid from: Autumn 07.