Electricity and Magnetism Course|Physics

Lectures (Video)

1. Electric Charges
2. Electric Field and Dipoles
3. Electric Flux and Gauss's Law
4. Electrostatic Potential
5. Conductors and Electrostatic Shielding
6. High-Voltage Breakdown
7. Capacitance
8. Polarization and Dielectrics
9. Currents and Resistivity
10. Energy Conservation and Kirchhoff's Rules
11. Magnetic field and Lorentz Force
12. Review
13. Cyclotron, Synchrotron and Mass Spectrometer
14. Biot-Savart Law
15. Ampere's Law and Solenoids
16. Electromagnetic Induction and Faraday's Law
17. Dynamos and Eddy Currents
18. Displacement Current and Motors
19. Electrocardiogram and Superconductivity
20. Inductance
21. Magnetic Materials
22. Hysteresis and Maxwell's Equations
23. Review II
24. Transformers
25. Resonance
26. Traveling and Standing Waves
27. Resonance and Electromagnetic Waves
28. Polarization
29. Snell's Law and Huygens's Principle
30. Polarizers
31. Rainbows
32. Review III
33. Interferometers
34. Single-Slit Diffraction
35. Doppler Effect and Cosmology
36. Special Lecture

Electricity and Magnetism

Course Summary

This course is based on 8.02 Electricity and Magnetism, Spring 2002 made available by Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license.

This is another course conducted by Prof. Walter Lewin at MIT well-known for his dynamic and engaging teaching style. This is a second-semester freshman physics class in electromagnetism. In addition to the basic concepts of Electromagnetism, a vast variety of interesting topics are covered in this course: Lightning, Pacemakers, Electric Shock Treatment, Electrocardiograms, Metal Detectors, Musical Instruments, Magnetic Levitation, Bullet Trains, Electric Motors, Radios, TV, Car Coils, Superconductivity, Aurora Borealis, Rainbows, Radio Telescopes, Interferometers, Particle Accelerators (a.k.a. Atom Smashers or Colliders), Mass Spectrometers, Red Sunsets, Blue Skies, Haloes around Sun and Moon, Color Perception, Doppler Effect, Big-Bang Cosmology.

Reading Material

1. Textbook
Giancoli, D. C. Physics for Scientists & Engineers. Vol. 2. Prentice Hall.

Course Material

1. Assignments
Problem sets and solutions. (MIT OCW)
2. Sample Exams
Examination questions and answers. (MIT OCW)

Other Resources

1. Physics for Scientists and Engineers with Modern Physics by Douglas C. Giancoli. (slides)
Slides for this book.

Software

Not available.

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