| Prerequisites and co-requisites |
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| Language of instruction |
English |
| Type |
Required |
| Level of Course |
Bachelor's |
| Lecturer |
Dr.Öğr. Ü. Çağdaş Allahverdi |
| Mode of Delivery |
Face to Face |
| Suggested Subject |
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| Professional practise ( internship ) |
None |
| Objectives of the Course |
The course’s objective is to introduce students to the fundamental concepts of physics and their practical applications, and to provide students with a foundation to build upon in their future work. The course introduces to non- major students the laws of electricity and magnetism, fundamentals of electric current and electric circuits, the properties of electro-magnetic waves, and special relativity
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| Contents of the Course |
"The topics covered in this course include:
• electric charge, electric fields, Gauss’ law, electric potential;
• electric properties of materials, conductors and dielectrics;
• electric current, resistance, Ohm’s law;
• simple DC electric circuits, Kirchhoff’s laws;
• AC circuits, phasors, phasor diagrams for AC circuits;
• magnetic fields and force, Biot-Savart law, Amper’s law;
• magnetic induction, Faraday’s law;
• Maxwell’s equations, electro-magnetic waves;
• basics of wave optics;
• introduction to special relativity.
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Subjects |
Teaching Methods and Technics |
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Introduction to electricity and magnetism. Electrical charge and its properties.
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Lecture |
| 2 |
Electric fields. Electric fields of simple charge configurations. Concept of the flux of a vector field.
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Lecture |
| 3 |
Flux of electric field, Gauss’ law. Fields of simple charge configurations using Gauss’ law. Electric potential and work of electric field. Relation between electric potential and energy, example of electric circuits.
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Lecture |
| 4 |
Examples of calculating electric potential for simple configurations of charges. Electrostatic properties of conductors. Electrostatic properties of dielectrics, polarization and electric dipoles.
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Lecture |
| 5 |
Electrostatic potential in conductors and capacitance. Capacitance of a capacitor. Introduction to electric current: flow of electric charge in conductors.
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Lecture |
| 6 |
Basics of electric circuits, electromotive force, change of electric potential in a circuit, motion of current in a circuit. Kirchhoff’s rules. Examples: series and parallel connections of resistors, ideal and real batteries, example of a multi-loop circuit.
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Lecture |
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Magnetic field and magnetic force. Biot-Savart Law. Example magnetic field of a long straight wire. Ampere’s law. Example magnetic field of a long straight wire, magnetic field of a solenoid. Homestudy/handout: Vector product of vectors; magnetic field/force using vector product.
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Lecture |
| 8 |
Midterm Exam
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| 9 |
Magnetic properties of matter, magnetic dipoles, diamagnetic, paramagnetic, ferromagnetic materials. Amplification of magnetic field in ferromagnetics, hysteresis.
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Lecture |
| 10 |
Magnetic inductance, Faraday’s law. Example solving problems using Faraday’s law. Self and mutual inductance for a solenoid. Homestudy/handout: Transient phenomena in RC and RL circuits; energy of electric and magnetic fields.
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Lecture |
| 11 |
Maxwell-Ampere’s equation, displacement current, and Maxwell’s equations. Electromagnetic waves as a solution of Maxwell equations. Main properties of electromagnetic waves: spectrum, polarization states, speed in materials. Overview of Fresnel formulas for reflection and refraction.
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Lecture |
| 12 |
Maxwell equations and special relativity, Lorentz transformation, basic effects of special relativity. Basics of wave optics; superposition and interference of EM waves. Diffraction of EM waves. Example diffraction on two slits. Example interference from thin film.
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Lecture |
| 13 |
Alternating current. Properties of AC, phasor representation of AC waves. Resistance, capacitance and inductance in AC circuits.
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Lecture |
| 14 |
Kirchhoff’s voltage rule for AC circuits, phasor diagrams. RLC circuit, impedance, phase shift, power factor.
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Lecture |
| 15 |
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| 16 |
Final Exam |
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Material / Resources |
Information About Resources |
Reference / Recommended Resources |
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H.D. Young, R.A. Freedman and A.L. Ford, Sears and Zemansk's University Physics with Modern Physics Technology Update, 13th Edition, ISBN 10: 0-321-89470-7, 2014 |
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"D. Halliday, R. Resnick, J. Walker, Fundamentals of Physics Extended, 9th Edition, Wiley, 2009
ISBN-10: 0-321-64363-1, 2010.
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Raymond A. Serway, Physics for Scientists and Engineers, 4th edition, Saunders College Pub, 1996
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