PHYS 250 - Electricity and Magnetism

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    Difficulty
    6.3Demandingout of 10
    Credits
    4
    Prerequisite
    Prerequisite: PHYS 150 with a minimum grade of C and MATH 191 with a minimum grade of C
    Transfers To
    UC and CSUCal-GETC Area 5C · Cal-GETC Area 5A · IGETC Area 5C · IGETC Area 5A · CSU GE Area B3 · CSU GE Area B1
    Description
    This course details the mathematical and physical description of Coulomb's Law, electric field and potential, Gauss's Law, DC circuit analysis with Ohm's Law and Kirchhoff's Law, AC circuit analysis with phase diagrams, elementary electronics, capacitance, magnetic fields and their effect on moving charges and currents, magnetic fields produced by various current configurations, induced emf, mutual and self-inductance, basic theory of dielectrics, magnetic properties of materials and Maxwell's Equations in integral and differential form. *Note: the maximum UC credit allowed for students completing PHYS 120, 122 and PHYS 150, 152, 250, 252 is one series; deduct credit for duplication of topics.