Catalog 2020-2021 
    
    Apr 19, 2024  
Catalog 2020-2021 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

PHYS& 222 Engineering Physics II with Lab

5 credits
This course covers the basic principles of electromagnetism including: Coulomb’s law, the electric and potential fields, Gauss’s law, capacitance, current, resistance, DC circuit theory, magnetism, the magnetic field, Biot-Savart & Ampere’s law, and Faraday’s law. Laboratory work is included.

Prerequisites: MATH& 151  and PHYS& 221  

Course Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

  • Expand and improve quantitative/symbolic manipulation capabilities
  • Apply the paradigms of classical E&M to problem solving in the engineering context
  • Measure, record, and analyze signals using A/D converters with various sensors interfaced to computers using appropriate software
  • Explain both the power and limitations of a Maxwell’s equations approach in the conceptualization and design of engineered creations

Total Hours: 60 Theory (Lecture) Hours: 40 Guided Practice (Lab or Clinical) Hours: 20