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Electromagnetism (04_XDELM)

  • Coefficient : 3.5
  • Hourly Volume: 92.5h (including 45h supervised)
    CTD : 36h supervised
    Labo : 9h supervised
    Out-of-schedule personal work : 47.5h
  • Including project : 13.5h supervised and 27h unsupervised project

AATs Lists

Description

  1. Mathematics for electromagnetism.
  2. Electrostatic:
    • electric charges and Coulomb Force;
    • principle of superposition;
    • electric field and potential;
    • flow and Gauss's theorem;
    • balanced conductors, capacitors;
    • strengths and energy;
  3. Vacuum magnetostatics:
    • magnetic field ;
    • relation of Biot and Savart /Ampère's theorem
    • flow and Maxwell's theorem;
    • induction and Lenz's law;
    • Lorentz and Laplace force.

Learning Outcomes AAv (AAv)

  • AAv1 [heures: 20, B2, F1] : At the end of the semester, students will be able to precisely describe the physical properties (Coulomb forces, electric field, electric potential) induced in a vacuum by simple charge distributions point, linear, surface and volume statics.

  • AAv2 [heures: 19, B2, B3] : At the end of the semester, students will be able to carefully explain, through simple and documented calculations and/or diagrams and/or precise descriptions, physical phenomena (electric field , electric potential, flow of the electric field) generated by distributions of point, linear, surface or volume electric charges both in a vacuum, on the passage of charged surfaces, as well as on the surfaces and inside conductors in equilibrium electrostatics and dielectrics.

  • AAv3 [heures: 17, B3, C1] : At the end of the semester, students should be able to clearly explain the influence phenomena between potentially charged conductors, and apply them to capacitors.

  • AAv4 [heures: 10, B2] : At the end of the semester, the student must be able to determine the direction, the direction and the module of the magnetic induction vector generated by a system formed of rectilinear wires, turns and solenoids each carrying a current.

  • AAv5 [heures: 10, B3] : At the end of the semester, the student is able to use the consequences of the Lenz-Faraday law to analyze the induction phenomena generated in conductive loops.

Assessment methods

The evaluation is composed of

  • a long test
  • the average of several short evaluations

Key Words

Static electric and magnetic fields, electric charges and distributions of electric charges, potential, conductors in equilibrium, capacitor, induction, electric current, flux, field lines, energy, Maxwell's equations in statics.

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of electricity. Sufficient level in mathematics.

Resources

  • Electromagnétisme – Amzallag tomes 2 et 3 – Ediscience International
  • Course “Electromagnetism” semester S2