Magnetic Materials, Dia-, Para-, and Ferromagnetism

Lecture Description

Course Description

In addition to the basic concepts of Electromagnetism, a vast variety of interesting topics are covered in this course: Lightning, Pacemakers, Electric Shock Treatment, Electrocardiograms, Metal Detectors, Musical Instruments, Magnetic Levitation, Bullet Trains, Electric Motors, Radios, TV, Car Coils, Superconductivity, Aurora Borealis, Rainbows, Radio Telescopes, Interferometers, Particle Accelerators (a.k.a. Atom Smashers or Colliders), Mass Spectrometers, Red Sunsets, Blue Skies, Haloes around Sun and Moon, Color Perception, Doppler Effect, Big-Bang Cosmology.

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Course Index

1. Electric Charges, Polarization, and Electric Force
2. Electric Fields, Field Lines, Superposition, Inductive Charges, and Dipoles
3. Electric Flux and Gauss's Law
4. Electrostatic Potential, Electrical Energy, and Equipotential Surfaces
5. Equipotential Surfaces, Conductors, and Electrostatic Shielding
6. High-Voltage Breakdown, Lightning, and Sparks
7. Capacitance and Field Energy
8. Polarization, Dielectrics, and Capacitors
9. Currents, Resisitivity, and Ohm's Law
10. Batteries, EMF, Energy Conservation, Kirchoff's Rules, Circuits, and Power
11. Magnetic Fields, Lorentz Force, Torques, Electric Motors (DC), and Oscilloscope
12. Review Exam 1
13. Moving Charges in B-fields, Cyclotron, Synchrotron, and Mass Spectrometer
14. Biot-Savart Law, Gauss' Law for Magnetic Fields, and High Voltage Power Lines
15. Ampere's Law and Solenoids
16. Electromagnetic Induction, Faraday's Law, and Non-conservative Fields
17. Motional EMF, Eddy Currents, and Magnetic Braking
18. Diplacement Current, Synchronous Motors, and Induction Motors
19. Electric Shock Treatment, Pacemakers, Electroardiograms, and Superconductivity
20. RL Cirucits, Inductance, and Magnetic Field Energy
21. Magnetic Materials, Dia-, Para-, and Ferromagnetism
22. Hysteresis, Electromagnets, and Maxwell's Equations
23. Review Exam 2
24. Transformers and RC Circuits
25. Driven LRC Circuits and Metal Detectors
26. Traveling Waves and Standing Waves (Musical Instruments)
27. Elecromagnetic Waves (Radio), the Speed of Light, Resonance, and Distance Determination using Lasers
28. Index of Refraction, Poynting Vector, Oscillating Charges, and Polarization
29. Refraction and Dispersion
30. Polarizers, Malus's Law, Brewster Angle, and Polarization by Relection/Scattering
31. Rainbows
32. Review Exam 3
33. Double Slit Interference and Interferometers
34. Human Eye and Telescopes: Gratings, Resolving Power, Single-Slit Diffraction, Angular Resolution
35. Doppler Effect and the Big Bang Cosmology
36. Farewell Special