B.Sc. Physics
4th Semester Syllabus
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MJC-4 : Electricity & Magnetism (विद्युत और चुंबकत्व)
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Unit 1: Electrostatics (स्थिर विद्युत)
◦Electric Field and potential
◦Field due to a uniformly charged sphere
◦Gauss Law and its applications: The Field of a conductor
◦Electric dipole
◦Field and potential due to an electric dipole
◦Dipole approximation for an arbitrary charged distribution
◦Electric quadruple
◦Field due to a quadrupole
◦Electrostatic Energy of a uniformly charged sphere
◦Poisson and Laplace Equations
◦Applications of Laplace equation
Unit 2: Dielectric Properties of Matter (पदार्थ के ढांकता हुआ गुण)
◦Electric field in matter and Electrical susceptibility and Dielectric polarization
◦Dielectric constant
◦Polarisation vector
◦Surface Charge and bound charge
◦Displacement Vector D
◦Relations between E
◦P and D
Unit 3: Magnetism (चुंबकत्व)
◦Magnetic field, Magnetic force and Torque on a current carrying conductor, and loop placed in a magnetic field, Biot
◦Savart's Law and its simple applications: straight wire and circular loop
◦Magnetic Dipole
◦Magnetomotive force and Ampere's Circuital theorem and its applications to calculate magnetic field due to current carrying wire and solenoid and toroid
◦Gauss's law of magnetism (Integral and Differential Forms)
◦Relative Permeability of a Material
◦Magnetic Susceptibility
◦Magnetization Vector (I), or intensity of magnetisation
◦Magnetic Intensity (H)
◦Relation between B
◦I and H
◦Magnetic Energy stored in Matter
◦Magnetic Circuit
◦Potential Energy of a Current Loop placed in a magnetic field
◦Ballistic Galvanometer: Electromagnetic Damping
◦Logarithmic Damping
◦Critical Damping Resistance(CDR)
Unit 4: Electromagnetic Induction (विद्युत चुम्बकीय प्रेरण)
◦Faraday's and Lenz's Laws
◦Mutual and Self Induction
◦Self and Mutual inductances of a solenoid and system of current carrying loop
◦Energy stored in a Magnetic Field
◦Electric field induced due to time varying Magnetic field
◦Magnetic field induced due to Time varying electric field
◦Introduction to Maxwell's Equations
Unit 5: Electrical Circuits (विद्युत परिपथ)
◦AC Circuits: Kirchhoff's laws for AC circuits
◦Reactance and Complex Impedance
◦Series and parallel LCR Circuit: Resonance
◦Quality Factor, and Band Width
◦Power in AC Circuits
Reference Books:
- Electricity and Magnetism, Basudev Ghosh (Books And Allied (P) Ltd
- Introduction to Electrodynamics, D.J. Griffiths, 3rd Edn (Benjamin Cummings)
- Electricity and Magnetism
- Fundamentals of Electricity and Magnetism, Arthur F. Kip (McGraw-Hill)
- Electricity, Magnetism & Electromagnetic Theory, S. Mahajan and Choudhury (Tata McGraw-Hill)
- Fundamentals of Electricity and Magnetism D.N Vasudev (S. Chand & Co)
- Electricity and Magnetism- R. Murugeshan (S. Chand)
- Electricity and Magnetism- K.K. Tiwary (S. Chand)
- Advanced Practical Physics for students, B. L. Flint and H. T. Worsnop, (Asia Publishing House)
- A Text Book of Practical Physics, I. Prakash & Ramakrishna, (Kitab Mahal)
- Advanced level Physics Practicals, Michael Nelson and Jon M. Ogborn, (Heinemann Educational Publishers)
- Engineering Practical Physics, S. Panigrahi and B.Mallick, Cengage Learning
- B. Sc. Practical Physics, C. L. Arora, S. Chand and Co.