PHYS 2426 – Engineering Physics II

Required Topics

All instructors must cover the following sections from the approved Textbook, Tipler’s Physics, 5^th ed. These constitute the minimum course content. Any or all additional sections in the textbook, or additional supplementary material not covered in the textbook, may be added at the instructor’s discretion.

Section# Topic

Ch. 21 The Electric Field I: Discrete Charge Distributions
21-1 Electric Charge
21-2 Conductors and Insulators
21-3 Coulomb’s Law
21-4 The Electric Field
21-5 Electric Field Lines
21-6 Motion of Point Charges in Electric Fields
21-7 Electric Dipoles in Electric Fields

Ch. 22 The Electric Field II: Continuous Charge Distributions
22-1 Calculating E from Coulomb’s Law
22-2 Gauss’s Law
22-3 Calculating E from Gauss’s Law
22-4 Discontinuity of E_n
22-5 Charge and Field at Conductor Surfaces

Ch. 23 Electric Potential
23-1 Potential Difference
23-2 Potential Due to a system of Point Charges
23-3 Finding the Electric Field from the Potential
23-4 Calculation of V for Continuous Charge Distributions
23-5 Equipotential Surfaces

Ch. 24 Electrostatic Energy and Capacitance
24-1 Electrostatic Potential Energy
24-2 Capacitance
24-3 The Storage of Electrical Energy
24-4 Combinations of Capacitors
24-5 Dielectrics

Ch. 25 Electric Current and DC Circuits
25-1 Current and the Motion of Charges
25-2 Resistance and Ohm’s Law
25-3 Energy in Electric Circuits
25-4 Combination of Resistors
25-5 Kirchhoff’s Rules
25-6 RC Circuits

Ch. 26 The Magnetic Field
26-1 The Force Exerted by a Magnetic Field
26-2 Motion of a Point Charge in a Magnetic Field
26-3 Torques on Current Loops and Magnets

Ch. 27 Sources of the Magnetic Field
27-2 The Magnetic Field of Currents: The Biot-Savart Law
27-3 Gauss’s Law for Magnetism
27-4 Ampere’s Law
27-5 Magnetism in Matter

Ch. 28 Magnetic Induction
28-1 Magnetic Flux
28-2 Induced EMF and Faraday’s Law
28-3 Lenz’s Law
28-4 Motional EMF
28-5 Eddy Currents
28-6 Inductance
28-7 Magnetic Energy
28-8 RL Circuits

Ch. 29 AC Circuits
31-1 ac Generators
31-2 Alternating Current in a Resistor
31-3 Alternating Current in Inductors and Capacitors
31-4 Phasors
31-5 LC and RLC circuits without a Generator
31-6 RLC Circuits with a Generator
31-7 The Transformer

Ch. 30 Maxwell’s Equations and Electromagnetic Waves
30-1 Maxwell’s Displacement Current
30-2 Maxwell’s Equations
30-3 Electromagnetic Waves

Ch. 31 Properties of Light
31-4 The Speed of Light
31-5 The Propagation of Light
31-6 Reflection and Refraction
31-7 Polarization

Ch. 32 Optical Images
32-1 Mirrors
32-2 Lenses
32-3 Aberrations
32-4 Optical Instruments

Ch. 33 Interference and Diffraction
33-1 Phase Difference and Coherence
33-2 Interference in Thin Films
33-3 The Two-Slit Interference Pattern
33-4 Diffraction Pattern of a Single Slit
33-5 Using Phasors to Add Harmonic Waves
33-7 Diffraction and Resolution
33-8 Diffraction Gratings