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PH-112
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Electricity, Magnetism and Thermal Physics

Theory: 3 Cr. Hrs Total: 3 Cr. Hrs
Objectives: Fundamentals of electromagnetism and thermodynamics: electrostatics, Gauss's Law, DC circuits, magnetic fields, induction, Maxwell's equations, and heat laws.

Contents: 1. Electric charge and Coulomb's law and its applications. 2. Electric Field: Gauss's Law and its Applications, Electric Potential with application, Capacitors and Dielectrics, Electric Dipole in an Electric Field. 3. Currents and Resistance, Direct-Current Circuits. 4. The Magnetic Field: Forces on charged particles and on Current carrying conductor, Biot-Savart Law and its Applications, Ampere's Law with Applications, Gauss's Law in magnetism. 5. Faraday's Law, Motional emf, Lenz's Law, Induced emf and applications. 6. Inductance: self-Induction, mutual Inductance, RL Circuits. 7. General Form of Ampere's Law, Maxwell's Equations. 8. Thermal, Ideal gas law, Kinetic theory of gases. 9. Internal energy, Heat, Specific heat, heat and heat capacity of the ideal gas, Heat transfer, Conduction, Convection, Radiation, First Law of Thermodynamics, Heat engines, Entropy.

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