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Faculty of Science Handbook, Academic Session 2024/2025

Electrostatics: electric charge and force, Coulomb’s law, electric field,
discrete and continuous charge distributions, Gauss’ law, electric
potential and electric potential energy, electric conductors, induced
charges, capacitance and capacitors.
Electrostatics in matter: electric dipole, dielectric polarization, electric
field in dielectric, capacitance with dielectrics, energy density in
electric fields.
Electric currents: electric charge conservation, Ohm’s law, electrical
resistivity and conductivity, microscopic view of electric current,
electric power.
Magnetostatics: Lorentz's force on charges and currents in magnetic
and electric field, Biot-Savart’s law, steady current, stable current
magnetic field, Ampere’s law.
Magnetostatics in matter: magnetization, diamagnetism,
paramagnetism, ferromagnetism and anti-ferromagnetism.
Electrodynamics: Faraday’s law and Lenz’s law, electromotive force
(emf), electromagnetic induction, mutual inductance, self-inductance,
inductor, energy stored in magnetic field.
Maxwell’s equations: Maxwell’s displacement current, the general
Maxwell’s equations in integral form and differential form, Maxwell’s
equations in vacuum and electromagnetic waves in vacuum.
Assessment Method:
Final Examination: 60%
Continuous Assessment: 40%

SIF2003 ELECTROMAGNETISM II (3 CREDITS)
Revision on electricity and magnetism in derivative forms. Coordinate
systems: cylindrical, rectangle and spherical coordinates, Divergence
theorem and Stokes’ theorem, imaging method, Gauss theorem in
derivative form, divergence and curl of magnetic field, Laplace
equation in 2 and 3 dimensions, boundary conditions and theorem of
uniqueness, boundary conditions for D, E, B and H vectors, Free and
bounded charges, Field variation with time, Maxwell’s equations in
differential and integral forms, Solution to Maxwell’s equations in free
space, Maxwell equations in matter, Scalar potential, vector potential
and Gauge transformation. Electromagnetic waves: In free space,
polarization, reflection and transmission in medium, Helmholtz’s
equation.
Electromagnetic wave propagation: Poynting theorem and Poynting
vector, electromagnetic wave in conducting and nonconducting
medium, frequency dependence of permittivity and conductivity,
dispersion in nonconducting medium, propagation of electromagnetic

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