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PHY250H1S
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
PHY132H1/152H1, (MAT135H1,MAT136H1)/MAT137Y1/MAT157Y1
Co-requisite
MAT235Y1/237Y1/257Y1
Recommended preparation
n.a.
Textbook
                            ['Introduction to Electrodynamics by David J. Griffiths, 4th ed.']
                        
Breadth requirement
BR=5
Distribution requirement
DR=SCI
course title
PHY250H1S
session
winter
year of study
2nd year
time and location
24L: LEC0101: MW11 12T: M1/M3/W1/F3 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)
instructor
Grisouard, Nicolas
Nicolas Grisouard