PHYS 4CPhysics for Physics Majors—Electricity and Magnetism
Continuation of PHYS 4B covering charge and Coulomb’s law, electric field, Gauss’s law, electric potential, capacitors and dielectrics, current and resistance, magnetic field, Ampere’s law, Faraday’s law, inductance, AC circuits.
Prerequisites
From the catalog: “PHYS 4A-B or PHYS 2A-B-C, MATH 20A-B-C or 31BH, and 18 or 20F or 31AH. Recommended preparation: prior or concurrent enrollment in MATH 20E or 31CH.”
Where it sits in degree plans
Suggested plans most often put it in Year 2 · Fall (4 programs).
Required in (3)
- Electrical Engineering (B.S.)
- Physics (B.A.)
- Physics (B.S.)
Courses that list PHYS 4C as a prerequisite (6)
- EDS 105 Teaching and Learning Physics
- PHYS 170 Medical Instruments: Principles and Practice
- PHYS 180 Teaching and Learning Physics
- PHYS 2CL Physics Laboratory—Electricity and Magnetism
- PHYS 4D Physics for Physics Majors—Electromagnetic Waves, Special Relativity and Optics
- SIO 171 Introduction to Physical Oceanography