Skip to Content

PHY250H1F
Electricity and Magnetism

Official description

An introductory course in Electromagnetism. Topics include: Point charges; Coulomb's Law; electrostatic field and potential; Gauss' Law; conductors; electrostatic energy; magnetostatics, Ampere's Law, Biot-Savart Law, the Lorentz Force Law; Faraday's Law; Maxwell's equations in free space.

Prerequisite
PHY131H1/PHY151H1, PHY132H1/PHY152H1, (MAT135H1,MAT136H1)/MAT137Y1/MAT157Y1
Co-requisite
MAT235Y1/MAT237Y1/MAT257Y1
Textbook
                            ['Introduction to Electrodynamics by David J. Griffiths, 4th ed.']
                        
Breadth requirement
BR=5
Distribution requirement
DR=SCI
course title
PHY250H1F
session
fall
year of study
2nd year
time and location
24L: LEC0101: MW9 12T: T3/W4/F2/F4 Students/TAs: Room information available on ACORN (https://www.acorn.utoronto.ca/) Instructors: Room information available in the LSM Portal (https://lsm.utoronto.ca/lsm_portal)