PHYS 250 — Electricity and Magnetism
Units: 4 Lecture Hours: 54 Lab Hours: 54 Outside Hours: 108 Grading Method: Letter Credit Status: Credit, degree applicable Conditions of Enrollment: Prerequisite: PHYS 150 with a minimum grade of C and MATH 191 with a minimum grade of C This course details the mathematical and physical description of Coulomb’s Law, electric field and potential, Gauss’s Law, DC circuit analysis with Ohm’s Law and Kirchhoff’s Law, AC circuit analysis with phase diagrams, elementary electronics, capacitance, magnetic fields and their effect on moving charges and currents, magnetic fields produced by various current configurations, induced emf, mutual and self-inductance, basic theory of dielectrics, magnetic properties of materials and Maxwell’s Equations in integral and differential form. *Note: the maximum UC credit allowed for students completing PHYS 120, 122 and PHYS 1 50, 1 52, 250, 252 is one series; deduct credit for duplication of topics.