School of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Department of Mathematics and Physics

Course Name
PHYSICS II
Course Code PHY 108

Course Credit Hours 3

Prerequisite Physics I (PHY 107) and Calculus II (MAT 130)

Course Objective This course is designed to introduce a variety of phenomena in electromagnetism such as
electric charges and their interaction with electric and magnetic fields as well as current,
inductors, capacitors, and electrical properties of circuits.

Course Description Students analyze Coulomb’s law, Gauss’ law, Kirchhoff’s laws, Ampere’s law, Ohm’s law,
Faraday’s Law, Lenz’s law as well as their application to a variety of phenomena including
static charges, currents, and magnetic fields, circuits, power, induction, coils, and solenoids.
Students participate in interactive lectures and are evaluated by assignments, quizzes, and
exams. This course has a separate mandatory laboratory session every week as PHY 108L.

Method(s) of Instruction(s) Interactive lectures, Laboratory sessions

COURSE CONTENT BY MODULE

Module #1 Electric Charge and Field: Electric charge, Coulomb’s Law, Electric field, Electric field lines,
Electric field due to a point charge, electric dipole, line of charge and charged disk, Movement of
charge in an electric field

Module #2 Gauss’ Law: Flux, Gauss’ Law, Application of Gauss’ Law: Cylindrical, spherical, and planar
symmetry

Module #3 Electric Potential Energy: Electric potential energy and electric potential, Equipotential surface,
Calculating potential from the electric field, Potential due to a point charge and a group of point
charges, Potential due to continuous charge distribution, Conductors in electrostatic equilibrium

Module #4 Capacitors: Capacitance, Capacitors in series and parallel, Energy stored in an electric field,
Capacitors with a dielectric

Module #5 Ohm’s Law and Electric Circuit: Electric current, resistance, and Ohm’s law, Resistors in series and
parallel, Power in electric circuits, Kirchhoff’s laws and solving circuits, RC circuits

Module #6 Magnetic Force and Field: Magnetic force, Hall effect, Torque on a current loop, Magnetic field due
to a current, Biot-Savart Law, Force between two parallel currents, Ampere’s law, Solenoid

Module #7 Induction: Faraday’s law of induction, Lenz’s law, Induction and energy transfer, Induced electric
field, Inductors and inductance, Self-induction, Energy stored in a magnetic field, Mutual induction,
LR circuit

Module #8 LC Oscillation: LC circuit, Maxwell’s Equations

Actual contact hours: 42 hours per semester

TEXTBOOK REQUIREMENT

David Halliday, Robert Resnick, and Jearl Walker, Fundamentals of Physics (10th ed., 2013), John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New
York, NY.

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ASSESSMENT STRATEGY AND GRADING SCHEME

NSU’s grading and performance evaluation policies will be followed in assigning the grade. Please note that all final grades
are subject to departmental review and approval. A guideline of course assessment is as follows-

Class Attendance Assignments/Projects Quiz Mid Term Final

10% 10% 20% 25% 35%

MAPPING OF COURSE OUTCOMES

Bloom’s
taxonomy
domain/level
CLO-# Outcome types (C: Cognitive Delivery method Assessment tools
P:
Psychomotor
A: Affective
Calculate electrical quantities such C2, C3, P2 Lecture, Quiz,
as electric force, electric field, and simulations Assignment
CLO #1 electric flux using Coulomb’s law and
and Gauss’ law. Discussion
Midterm
Exam
CLO #2 Calculate the potential of C2, C3, P2 Lecture, Simulations Quiz,
distributions of electric charge and and Discussion Assignment
different combinations of electric
charges using Coulomb law.

CLO #3 Compute capacitance of simple C2, C3, P2 Lecture, Simulations, Quiz and
capacitors and resistors as well as and Discussion Assignment
series, parallel and series-parallel
arrangements of capacitors and
resistors.

CLO #4 Analyze Ohm’s and Kirchhoff’s C4, P2 Lecture, Simulations

laws by evaluating electric current and Discussion Quiz and
and power in simple DC circuits Assignment
involving resistors and batteries.

CLO #5 Analyze the effect of magnetic fields C4, P2 Lecture, Simulations

on the motion of an electric charge, and Discussion
Quiz and
as well as the force and torque on a
Assignment
current-carrying wire in a magnetic Final Exam
field.

CLO #6 Calculate the magnetic field due to C2, C3, P2 Lecture, Simulations
currents in wires, coils, and and Discussion Quiz and
solenoids using Biot-Savart law and Assignment
Ampere’s law.

CLO #7 Apply Faraday’s law of induction C3, P2 Lecture, Simulations

and Lenz’s law to analyze induced and Discussion
emf and current as well as the Quiz and
phenomenon of self-induction and Assignment
mutual induction.

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LECTURE DETAILS:

Tentative lecture and examination schedule are given below. These may be changed/reordered if necessary.

L1- L2 Electric Charge, Coulomb’s Law, Electric force between two and more charges

L3 – L4 Electric field calculation – point charge and continuous charge distribution

L5- L6 Electric field lines, Dipole in an electric field, Torque, Motion of charge in an electric field, Charge
quantization, Millikan Oil drop experiment

L7 – L9 Flux, Gauss’s Law, Application of Gauss’ law, Conductors in electrostatic equilibrium

L10 – L11 Electric potential energy and electric potential, Calculating potential from the field, Potential due to a
point charge and a group of point charges, Equipotential surface

L12 – L14 Capacitance, Calculation of capacitance, Capacitors in series and in parallel, Energy stored in an
electric field, Energy density, Effect of a dielectric on a capacitor

MIDTERM EXAM

L15 – L17 Electric current, Resistance and Ohm’s law, Resistors in series and parallel, Power in electric circuits,
Kirchhoff’s laws and solving circuits, RC circuits

L18 – L20 Magnetic Force, Hall Effect, Magnetic force due to charge and current, Torque on a current loop

L21 – L23 Magnetic field due to current, Biot –Savart Law and its applications, Force between two parallel
current carrying conductors, Ampere’s law and its applications, Magnetic field due to a solenoid

L24 – L25 Faraday’s Law of induction and Lenz’s law, Motional EMF

L26 – L27 Inductors and inductance, Self-induction, Energy stored in a magnetic field, Mutual induction, LR
circuit

L28 – L29 LC circuit and Maxwell’s equations

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