Summary - PHY201, Fall 1999

The lab exam will involve one or two problems in the style given below, along with a couple of simple exercises concerning Mathematica and Fortran.

 

• SUMMARY OF THE PHYSICS
  • Electrostatics
    • Sample problem: Summing effects of several sources
    • Sample problem: Integrating effects of a continuous source
  • Magnetostatics
    • Sample problem: Current loop
  • A moving charge in $\vec{E}$ and $\vec{B}$ fields
    • Sample problem: Perpendicular magnetic and electric fields
      
  • Electromagnetic waves - Interference and diffraction
    • Sample problem: Diffraction Gratings
  • Damped harmonic oscillators - LRC circuits
    • Sample problem: Damped harmonic oscillator
      
• SOME IMPORTANT MATHEMATICA TOOLS YOU NEED
• SOME THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT FORTRAN
  • Sample problem: Fortran Basics