2025 (Current Year) Faculty Courses Liberal arts and basic science courses Basic science and technology courses
Fundamentals of Electromagnetism 2 H
- Academic unit or major
- Basic science and technology courses
- Instructor(s)
- Hiro Munekata
- Class Format
- Lecture
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - Class
- H
- Course Code
- LAS.P104
- Number of credits
- 100
- Course offered
- 2025
- Offered quarter
- 4Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 19, 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 | Ampere's Law, electromagnetic induction | Can you explain electromagnetic induction with equations and words? |
| Class 2 | induced electric fields, magnetic energy, alternating electric fields | Can you explain induced electric fields, magnetic energy, and the effect of alternating electric fields? |
| Class 3 | displacement current, Maxwell's equations (integral form), vector operators | Let us correctly understand displacement current, let us use vector operators |
| Class 4 | An easy way to derive speed of light, vector operators, div & rot | Why the c value is express like this? Let us see the integral form of Maxwell's equations. Preparation of the differential form, div and rot. |
| Class 5 | Maxwell's equations (differential form), electromagnetic waves | Let us express Maxwell's equations in differential forms and derive the speed of light. |
| Class 6 | Energy of electromagnetic waves, (property of light: momentum light, light pressure, and LCR circuit) | Why electromagnetic waves carry energy? |
| Class 7 | Review of important points, untouched topics, Lorentz transformation: an entrance to the relativity | Can you show a process how scientists have reached the fundamental concept of electromagnetic waves? |
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)
H. Tanaka, Fundamental physics course Electromagnetism, Baifukan Co., Ltd (Japanese edition)
Reference books, course materials, etc.
M. Nakayama, Electromagnetism, Shokabo Co. Ltd. (Japanese edition)
p.200-205, 207-213, 220, 227-232, 184-188, etc.
Evaluation methods and criteria
Scores are based on the total of (1) attendance points and (2) the final written examination. The point of attendance is 3 point per each class, whereas the point of final examination is 79 point in full score.
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).
munekata.h.aa[at]m.titech.ac.jp
Office hours
The most convenient time zone for me (HM) is in the afternoon of the class day. Please contact me or e-mail me after the class
for reservation if necessary. Other date and time is also available, but will be with ZOOM, the on-line basis.
Other
Refer "Schedule of the class H" for concrete contents. It will be uploaded in the window of of the class in SCOLA.
Outline will be explained in the first class of Oct. 8.