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    Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
    EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

    Courses and Certificate Fees

    Certificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
    yesIIT Kanpur

    The Syllabus

    • Coloumb's Law
    • Coloumb's Force due to several Point charges
    • Force due to distribution of Charges
    • What is an Electric Field?
    • Electric Field due to a Charged Distribution
    • Helmholtz's Theorem for Electric Field
    • Divergence of a Field
    • Divergence of Electric Field & Gauss's Law
    • Curl Of a Field-I
    • Curl of a Field-II & Stokes' Theorem

    • Line surface area & volume elements in Cartesian & Cylindrical Coordinates
    • Line surface area & volume elements in Spherical Polar Coordinates
    • Examples of application of the divergence and stokes' theorems
    • Electrostatic Potential
    • Electric field as the gradient of electrostatic potential
    • Laplace's and Poisson's equations for electrostatic potential
    • Elecrostatic potential due to a charge distribution-I; a line charge of finite length
    • Elecrostatic potential due to a charge distribution-II;a ring and a spherical shell of charge
    • Uniqueness of the solution of Laplace's and Poisson's equations
    • Method of images I: point charge in front of a grounded metallic plane -I

    • Method of imagesII: point charge in front of a grounded metallic plane and grounded metal sphere
    • Laplaces equations in some other physical phenomena
    • Energy of a charge distribution-I
    • Energy of a charge distribution-II An example
    • Energy of a charge distribution-III Energy density in terms of electric field
    • Electric field and potential in a conductor
    • Reciprocity theorem for conductors-I
    • Reciprocity theorem for conductors-II
    • Electric polarization and bound charges-I
    • Electric polarization and bound charges-II

    • Electric Displacement
    • Elecrostatics in presence of Dielectric Materials
    • Elecrostatics in presence of Dielectric Materials-II
    • Introduction to Magnetostatics; The BiO-Savart law
    • Divergence and curl of Magnetic Field
    • Amperes law for Magnetic Fields
    • Vector Potential for Magnetic Fields
    • Calculation of Vector Potential for a given magnetic field
    • Equation for the Vector Potentialin terms of current density

    • Vector potential from Current Densities-I
    • Vector potential from Current Densities-II
    • Magnetic Materials- I
    • Magnetic Materials-II Bound Current Densities
    • The Auxiliary Field- H
    • Solving for Magnetic Field of a magnet-I
    • Solving for Magnetic Field of a magnet in presence of Magnetic Materials
    • Faradays Law
    • Induced Electric field due to changing Magnetic Field

    • Demonstrations on faradays law, Lenzs law and Nonconservative nature of Induced electric field
    • Energy stord in a magnetic Field-I
    • Energy stord in a magnetic Field-I;solved examples
    • Displacement Current
    • Quasistatic approximation
    • Energy transport by electromagnetic fields; The Poynting Vector
    • The Poynting Vector;solved examples
    • Linear Momentum and Angular Momentum carried by Electromagnetic Fields

    • Solution Assignment 1- Problems 1 to 3
    • Solution Assignment 1- Problems 4 to 9
    • Solution Assignment 2- Problems 1 to 4
    • Solution Assignment 2- Problems 5 to 11
    • Solution Assignment 3- Problems 1 to 5
    • Solution Assignment 3- Problems 6 to 10
    • Solution Assignment 4- Problems 1 to 5
    • Solution Assignment 4- Problems 6 to 10
    • Solution Assignment 5- Problems 6 to 11
    • Solution Assignment 5- Problems 1to 5
    • Solution Assignment 6- Problems 1 to 4
    • Solution Assignment 6- Problems 5 to 8
    • Solution Problem Set 7

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