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COURSE 07 / COURSE

Electricity & Magnetism

Add fields, circuits, and electromagnetic energy.

OUTCOMEBuild the field viewpoint from charge and potential through circuits, magnetism, induction, and Maxwell’s synthesis.

PREREQUISITECalculus, vectors, energy, and differential-equation intuition.

Electricity & Magnetism: original course diagram — Course visual: a compact prompt for the physical ideas developed below.

12 CHAPTERS

Course map

01Charge and Coulomb’s lawModel electric interaction and its inverse-square structure.→02Electric fieldReplace action-at-a-distance with a local vector field.→03Electric potential and energyUse scalar potential to solve field and energy questions efficiently.→04Gauss’s lawExploit symmetry to calculate electric fields.→05Capacitance and dielectricsStore electric energy and understand material response.→06Current, resistance, and circuitsAccount for charge flow and voltage drops.→07Kirchhoff’s laws and transientsSolve networks and first-order RC/RL behavior.→08Magnetic fields and forcesTrack how current and moving charge create and respond to magnetism.→09Biot–Savart and AmpèreChoose integral tools for magnetic-field geometry.→10Faraday’s law and inductionExplain generators, transformers, and back EMF.→11Maxwell’s equationsSee electricity and magnetism as one local conservation structure.→12Electromagnetic studio: pump controlsRead a field measurement and energy path from supply to motor.→