Physics 1B/Higher Physics 1B – Syllabus First Year Teaching Unit, School of Physics PHYSICS 1B/HIGHER PHYSICS 1B (PHYS1221/1231) Textbook: “Fundamentals of Physics”, 11th ANZ Edition, by Halliday, Resnick and Walker TOPIC 1: Electricity and Magnetism COULOMB’S LAW (§21.1-21.3) Coulomb’s law; charge is quantised; charge is conserved. ELECTRIC FIELDS (§22.1-22.7) The electric field; the electric field due to a charged particle; the electric field due to a dipole; the electric field due to a line of charge; the electric field due to a charged disk; a point charge in an electric field; a dipole in an electric field. GAUSS’S LAW (§23.1-23.6) Electric flux; Gauss’s law; a charged, isolated conductor; applications of Gauss’s law to various charge distributions, especially with 1, 2 and 3 dimensional symmetry. ELECTRIC POTENTIAL (§24.1-24.8) Electric potential; equipotential surfaces and the electric field; potential due to a charged particle; potential due to an electric dipole; potential due to a continuous charge distribution; calculating the field from the potential; electric potential energy of a system of charged particles; potential of a charged isolated conductor. CAPACITANCE (§25.1-25.5) Capacitance; calculating the capacitance; capacitors in parallel and in series; energy stored in an electric field; capacitors with a dielectric; dielectrics and Gauss’ law. MAGNETIC FIELDS (§28.1-28.4,28.6, 28.7, 32.1, 32.2) Magnetic fields and the definition of B; crossed E and B fields: discovery of the electron; crossed fields: the Hall effect; a circulating charged particle; magnetic force on a current- carrying wire; torque on a current loop; the magnetic dipole moment; Gauss
’s law for magnetism; induced magnetic fields. MAGNETIC FIELDS DUE TO CURRENTS (§29.1-29.5) Magnetic field due to a current; force between two parallel currents; Ampere’s law; solenoids and toroids; a current-carrying coil as a magnetic dipole. INDUCTION AND INDUCTANCE (§30.1-30.3) Faraday’s law and Lenz’s law; induction and energy transfers; induced electric fields. Physics 1B/Higher Physics 1B – Syllabus First Year Teaching Unit, School of Physics TOPIC 2: Physical Optics ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES (§33.1-33.7) Electromagnetic waves; energy transport and the poynting vector; radiation pressure; polarization; reflection and refraction; total internal reflection; polarization by reflection. INTERFERENCE (§35.1-35.5) Light as a wave; Young’s interference experiment; interference and double slit intensity; interference from thin films; Michelson’s interferometer. DIFFRACTION (§36.1-36.7) Single-slit diffraction; intensity in single-slit diffraction; diffraction by a circular aperture; diffraction by a double slit; diffraction gratings; gratings: dispersion and resolving power; x-ray diffraction. TOPIC 3: Introductory Quantum Physics and Solid State Physics PHOTONS AND MATTER WAVES (§38.1-38.6) The photon, the quantum of light; the photoelectric effect; photons, momentum, Compton scattering, light, interference; the birth of quantum physics; electrons and matter waves. CONDUCTION AND ELECTRICITY IN SOLIDS (§41.1-41.3) The electrical properties of metals; semiconductors and doping; the p-n junction and the transistor. First 16 lectures: Electricity and Magnetism Last 16 lectures: Physical optics; Introductory Quantum Physics & Solid State Physics.