Physics II - Electricity and Magnetism

8.02 Classical Theory of Electromagnetism. In addition to the basic concepts of Electromagnetism, a vast variety of interesting topics are covered in this course: Lightning, Pacemakers, Electric Shock Treatment, Electrocardiograms, Metal Detectors, Musical Instruments, Magnetic Levitation, Bullet Trains, Electric Motors, Radios, TV, Car Coils, Superconductivity, Aurora Borealis, Rainbows, Radio Telescopes, Interferometers, Particle Accelerators (a.k.a. Atom Smashers or Colliders), Mass Spectrometers, Red Sunsets, Blue Skies, Haloes around Sun and Moon, Color Perception, Doppler Effect, Big-Bang Cosmology.

There is a build-your-own-motor contest as part of this course (see Calendar).

OpenCourseWare presents another version of 8.02T: Electricity and Magnetism.

OpenCourseWare also presents Professor Lewin's freshman physics course series 8.01 ? Newtonian Mechanics - with a complete set of 35 video lectures from the Fall of 1999 and 8.03 - Vibrations and Waves  - with a complete set of 23 video lectures from the Fall of 2004.

LEC #	TOPICS
	Course Introduction
1	What holds our world together? - Electric Charges (Historical) - Polarization - Electric Force - Coulomb's Law
2	Electric Field - Field Lines - Superposition - Inductive Charging - Dipoles - Induced Dipoles
3	Electric Flux - Gauss's Law - Examples
4	Electrostatic Potential - Electric Energy - eV - Conservative Field - Equipotential Surfaces
5	E = -grad V - More on Equipotential Surfaces - Conductors - Electrostatic Shielding (Faraday Cage)
6	High-Voltage Breakdown - Lightning - Sparks - St. Elmo's Fire
7	Capacitance - Field Energy
8	Polarization - Dielectrics - The Van de Graaff - More on Capacitors
9	Currents - Resistivity - Ohm's Law
10	Batteries - EMF - Energy Conservation - Power - Kirchhoff's Rules - Circuits - Kelvin Water Dropper
11	Magnetic field - Lorentz Force - Torques - Electric Motors (DC) - Oscilloscope
12	Review Exam 1 (Secret Top!)
13	Moving Charges in B-fields - Cyclotron - Synchrotron - Mass Spectrometer - Cloud Chamber
14	Biot-Savart Law - Gauss' Law for Magnetic Fields - Revisit the "Leyden Jar" - High-Voltage Power Lines
15	Ampere's Law - Solenoids - Revisit the Kelvin Water Dropper - Midterm Evaluation
16	Electromagnetic Induction - Faraday's Law - Lenz Law - Complete Breakdown of Intuition - Non-Conservative Fields
17	Motional EMF - Dynamos - Eddy Currents - Magnetic Braking
18	Displacement Current (Difficult Concept) - Synchronous Motors - Induction Motors - Secret Top, How does it work?
19	How do Magicians levitate women? (with demo) - Electric Shock Treatment (no demo) - Electrocardiogram (with demo) - Pacemakers - Superconductivity (with demo) - Levitating Bullet Trains - Aurora Borealis
20	Inductance - RL Circuits - Magnetic Field Energy
21	Magnetic Materials - Dia-, Para-, and Ferromagnetism - Prize Ceremony of Motor Contest
22	Hysteresis - Electromagnets - Bohr Magneton - Maxwell's Equations - 600 daffodils
23	Review Exam 2
24	Transformers - Car Coils - RC Circuits
25	Driven LRC Circuits - Resonance - Metal Detectors (Beach/Airport)
26	Traveling Waves - Standing Waves - Musical Instruments
27	Resonance - Destructive Resonance - Electromagnetic Waves - Speed of Light - Radio / TV - Distance Determinations using Radar and Lasers Information about the Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bridge/tacoma3.html http://www.ketchum.org/bridgecollapse.html
28	Index of Refraction - Poynting Vector - Oscillating Charges - Radiation Pressure - Comet Tails - Polarization (Linear, Elliptical, and Circular)
29	Snell's Law - Refraction - Total Reflection - Dispersion - Prisms - Huygens's Principle - The Illusion of Color - The Weird Benham Top - Land's Famous Demo
30	Polarizers - Malus's Law - Brewster Angle - Polarization by Reflection and Scattering - Why is the sky blue? Why are sunsets red? - The sun will set in the lecture hall!
31	Rainbows - A modest rainbow will appear in the lecture hall! -Fog Bows - Supernumerary Bows - Polarization of the Bows - Halos around the Sun and the Moon - Mock Suns
32	Review Exam 3
33	Double-Slit Interference - Interferometers
34	Gratings - Resolving Power - Single-Slit Diffraction - Angular Resolution - Human Eye - Telescopes
35	Doppler Effect - The Big Bang - Cosmology
36	Farewell Special - Bring a Friend!