PHY 173: Optics, Electricity & Magnetism and Electrodynamics

Credit Hours: 3:00 (Level-1, Term-2, NCE)

Combination of lenses, Aberrations, Defects of images, Dispersion, Optical instruments, Resolving power of optical instruments, Interference of light, Diffraction of light, Polarization of light; Electrostatic force and electric field, Electric potential, Capacitors and dielectrics, Kirchhoff’s law, Magnetic field, Ampere’s law, Bio-Savart’s law, Electromagnetic induction; Poisson’s equations and Laplace’s equations, Maxwell’s equations and their applications, Displacement current, Energy in electromagnetic field: Poynting vector, EM wave: propagation in different media.