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APSC 112 Physics II Units: 3.30
This course continues from APSC 111 to introduce electricity and further develop fundamental ideas of mechanics in the context of engineering applications. Lecture topics include: oscillations and waves, electric charge, electrical current and resistance, EMF, D.C. circuits and electrical measurements, electric field and potential, magnetic fields and their origin, and electromagnetic induction.
(Lec: 2.8, Lab: 0, Tut: 0.5)
(Lec: 2.8, Lab: 0, Tut: 0.5)
Offering Term: W
CEAB Units:
Mathematics 0
Natural Sciences 35
Complementary Studies 0
Engineering Science 5
Engineering Design 0
Offering Faculty: Smith Engineering
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Calculate and describe the motion of systems in simple harmonic motion such as mass-spring systems and simple pendulums.
- Describe and calculate the motion of transverse and longitudinal waves, and work with basic wave phenomena such as superposition, reflection, standing waves, beats and the Doppler effect.
- Calculate the electric field due to discrete charges and, using integrals calculate the electric fields due to continuous charge distributions.
- Calculate electric potential energy and electric potential for discrete and continuous charge distributions.
- Understand the behaviour of current in circuits, and calculate currents and potentials in simple DC circuits.
- Understand and describe magnetic fields. Calculate forces and torques on particles and loops in a magnetic field.
- Understand the sources of magnetic fields, and calculate the magnetic fields produced by current carrying wires.
- Understand and describe magnetic induction, and calculate electromotive forces in circuits due to changing magnetic flux.