Catalog 2018-2019 
    
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Catalog 2018-2019 [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  

Quarters Offered: Fall, Winter

Student Outcomes/Competencies:
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 Lecture Hours: 40 Lab or Clinical Hours: 20