Course Description: APEX Calculus-based Electromagnetism (APEX P05) is a calculus-based, college-level physics course that explores topics such as electrostatics, magnetostatics, electrodynamics. This course will provide students with a fundamental understanding of electromagnetic phenomena, electronic circuits, and pave the way for students to study advanced topics such as electromagnetic waves and relativity.
Prerequisite: Students should have already been familiar with single variable calculus, and ideally have also learned multivariable calculus. For students who have not yet studied multivariable calculus, but have already studied single-variable calculus, please contact the APEX coordinator at least two months before class starts. APEX will provide guidance in studying the essential topics in multivariable calculus for P05.
Reference book: Halliday & Resnick, Fundamentals of Physics. or an equivalent textbook.
*We do not require students to use the book for our course. Instead, we strongly recommend students to take notes and take advantage of lecture slides, lecture recordings, homework assignments, homework solutions, exams and office hours to maximize their learning outcome.
Contents:
Unit 1a Electric Charges and Electric fields (3 hours)
Unit 1b Gauss’s law and integrated problems (3 hours)
Unit 2a Electrostatic potential and capacitors (3 hours)
Unit 2b Dielectrics and electrostatic energy storage (3 hours)
Unit 3a Electric currents and Ohm’s law (3 hours)
Unit 3b Complex and RC circuits (3 hours)
Unit 4a Magnetic fields and Lorentz force (3 hours)
Unit 4b Magnetic fields generated by currents (3 hours)
Unit 5a Inductance (3 hours)
Unit 5b LC circuits and energy of E&M field (3 hours)
Instructor: Dr. Bo Sun, Full Professor in the Department of Physics at Oregon State University. He received his bachelor's degree in Physics from Tsinghua University and obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from New York University after conducting graduate studies at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has many years of teaching experience in related fields and has frequently participated in question writing and grading for the Oregon Physics Olympiad.。