General Physics II

Electric charge, conductors and insulators, charging methods, and the inverse-square force law between point charges.

The electric field concept, field lines, superposition, fields of continuous charge distributions, and electric dipoles.

Electric flux, Gauss's law, and using symmetry to find electric fields for planar, cylindrical, and spherical charge distributions.

Electric potential energy, potential difference, equipotential surfaces, and the relationship between field and potential.

Capacitors, parallel-plate geometry, dielectric materials, energy stored in electric fields, and series/parallel combinations.

Electric current, current density, resistivity, Ohm's law, temperature dependence of resistance, and power dissipation.

EMF sources, Kirchhoff's laws, resistors in series and parallel, RC circuits, and measuring instruments.

Magnetic force on moving charges and current-carrying wires, circular motion in a magnetic field, torque on current loops, and the Hall effect.

Biot–Savart law, Ampère's law, magnetic fields of wires, solenoids, toroids, and magnetic properties of materials.

Magnetic flux, Faraday's law, Lenz's law, motional EMF, generators, and eddy currents.

Self-inductance, RL circuits, LC oscillations, RLC series circuits, impedance, resonance, and transformers.

Displacement current, Maxwell's four equations, the derivation of electromagnetic waves, wave speed, and the Poynting vector.

Reflection, refraction, Snell's law, total internal reflection, plane and curved mirrors, thin lenses, and optical instruments.

Wave nature of light, Young's double-slit experiment, thin-film interference, coherence, and the Michelson interferometer.

Single-slit diffraction, diffraction gratings, the Rayleigh criterion for resolution, polarization, and Malus's law.