Handbook

Lectures cover, in detail, the fundamental experimental laws of electromagnetism, how these relate to the electrical and magnetic properties of materials and finally lead to the four Maxwell field equations. Plane wave solutions to Maxwells equations in free space and the properties of these waves. Coulomb's and Gauss' laws, potential, capacitance, properties of dielectrics, field calculations, steady currents magnetism, Biot-Savart law, Ampere's law, magnetic properties of materials, Faraday's law, inductance, charge continuity equations, Maxwell's equations, plane waves in free space. The associated electronics laboratory consists mainly of experimental work, combined with some lectures and tutorials, covering the physics of p-n junction diodes and transistors, simple device models, AC theory, transistor amplifiers, operational amplifiers and their use in a variety of elementary circuits (amplifiers, adders, integrators, differentiators).