2024 Faculty Courses Liberal arts and basic science courses Basic science and technology courses
Fundamentals of Electromagnetism 2 M
- Academic unit or major
- Basic science and technology courses
- Instructor(s)
- Makoto Oka
- Class Format
- Lecture (Face-to-face)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - 3-4 Fri
- Class
- M
- Course Code
- LAS.P104
- Number of credits
- 100
- Course offered
- 2024
- Offered quarter
- 4Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 14, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
Following Fundamentals of Electromagnetism 1, this course covers static magnetic fields, changing electromagnetic fields, Maxwell’s equations, and electromagnetic waves.
Electromagnetism is important for understanding nature, and is essential for the study of science, engineering, life sciences, and other specialized courses. Students will learn the basic laws of electromagnetism in vacuum, and their mathematical descriptions. This will allow them to understand general electromagnetic phenomena as well as allow them to solve general problems in electromagnetism.
Fundamentals of optics and elementary particles are also key topics that will be covered in this course.
Course description and aims
By completing this course, students will be able to:
1) Understand the concepts of induced electromotive force, induced electric field, self-induction, mutual induction, magnetic energy, displacement current, etc., correctly, and describe them mathematically.
2) Understand Gauss's law for magnetic flux density, Ampére’s law, Faraday's law and Maxwell-Ampére’s law correctly, and apply them to solve problems in electromagnetism.
3) Understand electromagnetic waves on the basis of Maxwell’s equations.
4) Find mathematical solutions to problems in electromagnetism expressed by the appropriate equations, and explain the physical meaning of said solutions.
5) Understand basic optics and elementary particle interactions.
Keywords
Gauss's law, Ampére’s law, electromagnetic induction, Faraday's law, induced electromotive force, induced electric field, self-inductance, mutual inductance, magnetic energy, displacement current, Maxwell-Ampére’s law, Maxwell’s equations, electromagnetic waves, optics, elementary particles
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
Two-thirds of each class is devoted to fundamentals and the rest to advanced content or application. To allow students to get a good understanding of the course contents and practice application, problems related to the contents of this course are provided in Exercises in Physics II.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Electric current (conservation of charge, current and energy, Kirchhoff's law) | Explain Kirchhoff's law. |
| Class 2 | Electric current and magnetic field (Magnetic field, Ampere's law, Biot-Savart's law, Lorentz force) | Explain Ampére’s law. |
| Class 3 | Magnetic materials (magnetic dipole, magnetization, magnetic susceptibility, ferromagnetism, diamagnetism) | Explain magnetic dipole moment. |
| Class 4 | Electromagnetic induction (Faraday's law, induced electromotive force, induced electric field) | Explain electromagnetic induction. |
| Class 5 | Self-induction and mutual induction (self-inductance, mutual inductance, magnetic energy) | Explain self-induction and mutual induction. |
| Class 6 | Magnetic field from time dependent electric field (displacement current, coil impedance, LCR circuit) | Explain displacement current. |
| Class 7 | Maxwell's equation (integral form, differential form, electromagnetic waves, energy carried by EM waves) | Derive electromagnetic plane waves from Maxwell’s equations. |
Study advice (preparation and review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
Textbook(s)
Electromagnetism, J. Yokoyama, Kodansha
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Lecture notes are uploaded to T2SCHOLA in advance.
Evaluation methods and criteria
Evaluate by the final exam.
Related courses
- LAS.P106 ： Exercises in Physics II
Prerequisites
No prerequisites.
Contact information (e-mail and phone) Notice : Please replace from ”[at]” to ”@”(half-width character).
oka.m.aa[at]m.titech.ac.jp
Office hours
Contact by e-mail in advance to schedule an appointment:
oka.m.aa@m.titech.ac.jp