At the end of this course, the students should have a good grasp over foundational concepts involved in electrostatics, electricity and magnetism, and basic circuit analysis. They should be able to solve problems involving basic electric and magnetic fields and their interactions, analyse simple circuits, and also solve real world problems related to the topics covered.

Students will also be exposed to the preliminary ideas of classical electrodynamics towards the end of the course. They will be equipped with the necessary mathematical tools required to understand and solve problems.

• Electrostatics: Coulomb’s law; electric field; electric flux; Gauss’ law and its applications; electrostatic potential; work done and energy;  dipole in an electric field; dielectrics and polarisation; capacitors and capacitance 
• Current Electricity: Electric current and current density; Ohm’s law; resistivity of various materials; electrical energy; resistors in series and parallel; cell’s emf; Kirchhoff’s laws; Wheatstone bridge; RC circuits
• Magnetostatics: Magnetic dipoles; definition of magnetic fields; Lorentz force; charged particle in a magnetic field – cyclotron;  magnetic force on a current carrying wire; torque on current loop; magnetic dipole moments
• Magnetic Field due to a current: Ampere’s circuital law; Biot-Savart Law; magnetic fields due to a long straight wire and loop/coil (at centre and away from centre);  magnetic forces between two parallel wires

• Feynman, R., Leighton, R. B., & Sands, M. (2008). The Feynman lectures on Physics, Vols. I, II, and III. Narosa.
• Halliday, D., Resnick, R., & Walker, J. (2013). Fundamentals of Physics. Wiley.
• Verma, H. C. (2011). Concepts in Physics, Vol. I. Bharati Bhawan Publishers.