PHYS 121A - Introduction to Physics II - Calculus Supplement

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    Accepted For Credit: CSU & UC Offered: Spring Semester, Every Year This course reviews basic concepts in vectors, differentiation, and integration, through their application to problems in electromagnetism. The material is directly related to the topics studied in the main course (PHYS-121), but the application of calculus enables the solution of a wider range of problems. This supplement focuses on the calculation of static electric fields and their corresponding potentials due to various continuous charge distributions; calculation of static magnetic fields generated by electric current distributions; flux and induced field calculations; derivation of the capacitance and resistance of certain interesting geometries; and problems on circuits with time-dependent currents. Vector theory and a variety of integration and differentiation techniques are required. Students are required to purchase a scientific calculator. (GR)