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General Information

Course ID (CB01A and CB01B)
PHYSD004B
Course Title (CB02)
Physics for Scientists and Engineers: Electricity and Magnetism
Course Credit Status
Credit - Degree Applicable
Effective Term
Fall 2023
Course Description
This course introduces classical electromagnetism and includes DC and AC circuits and elementary field theory.
Faculty Requirements
Course Family
Not Applicable

Course Justification

This course satisfies the major requirements for physics, engineering, and chemistry majors and is UC and CSU transferable. This course satisfies the Liberal Arts A.A. Degree, Science, Math, and Engineering Emphasis. As the second course of a four-course sequence, it introduces the students to the fundamental principles of Electricity and Magnetism in order to prepare them for upper-division coursework in the related fields.

Foothill Equivalency

Does the course have a Foothill equivalent?
No
Foothill Course ID

Course Philosophy

Formerly Statement

Course Development Options

Basic Skill Status (CB08)
Course is not a basic skills course.
Grade Options
  • Letter Grade
  • Pass/No Pass
Repeat Limit
0

Transferability & Gen. Ed. Options

Transferability
Transferable to both UC and CSU
C-IDArea(s)StatusDetails
PHYSPhysicsApprovedC-ID PHYS 210 PHYS D004A & PHYS D004B & PHYS D004C & PHYS D004D required for C-ID PHYS 200 S

Units and Hours

Summary

Minimum Credit Units
6.0
Maximum Credit Units
6.0

Weekly Student Hours

TypeIn ClassOut of Class
Lecture Hours5.010.0
Laboratory Hours3.00.0

Course Student Hours

Course Duration (Weeks)
12.0
Hours per unit divisor
36.0
Course In-Class (Contact) Hours
Lecture
60.0
Laboratory
36.0
Total
96.0
Course Out-of-Class Hours
Lecture
120.0
Laboratory
0.0
NA
0.0
Total
120.0

Prerequisite(s)

PHYS D004A; and MATH D001C or MATH D01CH (may be taken concurrently)

Corequisite(s)

Advisory(ies)

ESL D272. and ESL D273., or ESL D472. and ESL D473., or eligibility for EWRT D001A or EWRT D01AH or ESL D005.

Limitation(s) on Enrollment

Entrance Skill(s)

General Course Statement(s)

Methods of Instruction

Lecture and visual aids

Discussion and problem solving performed in class

Quiz and examination review performed in class

Laboratory experience which involve students in formal exercises of data collection and analysis

Laboratory discussion sessions and quizzes that evaluate the proceedings weekly laboratory exercises

Assignments

  1. Daily and weekly readings from the text, articles, and class handouts
  2. Weekly readings from the laboratory manuals
  3. Weekly written assignments from the text and lectures
  4. Written laboratory reports during each week of lab

Methods of Evaluation

  1. The required readings will be evaluated through homework, quizzes, group discussions, projects, and exams. These evaluation methods will be evaluated for completeness, understanding, and accuracy to determine the student's level of understanding.
  2. The laboratory performance will be evaluated by quizzes and written lab reports. The quizzes will be evaluated for accuracy of responses and lab reports will be evaluated based on an established rubric.
  3. Exams are objective written tests to demonstrate the student's understanding of the course material. They will be evaluated for completeness, understanding, and accuracy to determine the student's level of understanding.
  4. A laboratory-based final examination involving "hands-on" practical evaluations demonstrating the understanding of the learning outcomes listed in the student learning outcomes sections.
  5. A two-hour comprehensive lecture final that includes the evaluation of verbal and conceptual understanding as well as mathematical and computational competency with respect to the theoretical basis and problem solving aspects of the class. The comprehensive final will test the overall understanding of the leaning outcomes listed in the learning outcomes section by evaluating the problem-solving process and the accuracy of the responses to the problems.

Essential Student Materials/Essential College Facilities

Essential Student Materials: 
  • None.
Essential College Facilities:
  • None.

Examples of Primary Texts and References

AuthorTitlePublisherDate/EditionISBN
Serway/Jewett, "Physics for Scientist and Engineers", 10th edition, Cengage, 2019

Examples of Supporting Texts and References

AuthorTitlePublisher
Freedman and Young, "University Physics", 12th edition, Pearson, 2014

Learning Outcomes and Objectives

Course Objectives

  • Discuss electrostatics and electric potential, and apply to solve related problems.
  • Analyze resistance, capacitance, DC Circuits, and compute related quantities.
  • Discuss magnetic fields and forces, and solve related problems.
  • Explain electromagnetic induction and inductance, and solve related problems.
  • Apply the principles of DC circuits and circuit elements to AC circuits.
  • Explain electromagnetic waves.
  • Analyze data using graphical, statistical, and computer-based techniques.

CSLOs

  • Critically examine new, previously un-encountered problems, analyzing and evaluating their constituent parts, to construct and explain a logical solution utilizing, and based upon, the fundamental laws of electricity and magnetism.

  • Gain confidence in taking precise and accurate scientific measurements, with their uncertainties, and then with calculations from them, analyze their meaning as relative, in an experimental context, to the verification and support of physics theories.

Outline

  1. Discuss electrostatics and electric potential, and apply to solve related problems.
    1. Understand the concept of electric charge
    2. Analyze the properties of conductors and insulators
    3. Analyze Coulomb's Law
    4. Analyze the concept of electric field
      1. Electric Field lines
      2. superposition principle for electric field
      3. Calculating electric field from different charge distributions
    5. Analyze Gauss's Law
      1. Electric Flux
      2. Application of Gauss's Law
    6. Understand the concept of electric potential
      1. Equipotential surfaces
      2. Superposition principle for electric potential
      3. Calculating electric potential for different charge distributions
      4. Electric potential energy
  2. Analyze resistance, capacitance, DC Circuits, and compute related quantities.
    1. Understand the concept of resistance
      1. Current
      2. Resistivity
      3. Resistance
      4. Series and parallel configurations
      5. EMF
    2. Understand the concept of capacitance
      1. Capacitors
      2. Capacitance
      3. Dielectrics
      4. Series and parallel configurations
      5. Energy stored in a capacitor
    3. Analyze DC circuits
      1. Kirchhoff's Rules
      2. RC circuits
      3. Energy and power in DC circuits
      4. Ammeters and voltmeters
  3. Discuss magnetic fields and forces, and solve related problems.
    1. Understand the concept of magnetism
    2. Explore magnetic fields
      1. Magnetic field lines
      2. Magnetic flux
      3. Gauss's Law for magnetism
      4. Magnetic field of stationary and moving charges
    3. Analyze the concept of magnetic force
      1. Magnetic force on a moving charge
      2. Magnetic force between current-carrying conductors
      3. Applications of charged particle motion in magnetic fields
    4. Analyze magnetic force and torque on a current loop
    5. Analyze Ampere's Law
  4. Explain electromagnetic induction and inductance, and solve related problems.
    1. Examine the concept of induction
      1. Faraday's Law
      2. Lenz's Law
    2. Analyze motional EMF
    3. Understand the concept of inductance
      1. Inductors
      2. Energy stored
      3. Self-inductance
      4. Mutual inductance
    4. Analyze inductors in circuits
      1. RL circuits
      2. LC circuits
      3. LRC circuits
  5. Apply the principles of DC circuits and circuit elements to AC circuits.
    1. Understand the concept of resistors, inductors, and capacitors in an AC circuit
    2. Analyze RLC series circuit
    3. Understand phasors
    4. Understand reactance
    5. Analyze the concept of resonance in AC circuits
    6. Analyze the properties of transformers
  6. Explain electromagnetic waves.
    1. Analyze Maxwell's Equations
    2. Understand the electromagnetic spectrum
  7. Analyze data using graphical, statistical, and computer-based techniques.
    1. Understand how to make accurate measurements and understand the uncertainties associated with them
    2. Analyze data to induce scientific conclusions
    3. Collaborate with others as a team to produce collective results
    4. Learn how to use and collect data using several electronic devices relevant to the discipline of electricity and magnetism

Lab Topics

  1. Measuring Resistance
  2. Ohmic and non-ohmic resistors
  3. DC circuits
  4. Introduction to the Oscilloscope
  5. RC series circuits
  6. The Magnetic Force on a Current Carrying Wire
  7. The E/M experiment
  8. LR Circuits and Phase differences
  9. Real world data collection
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