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This document provides information about the PHY103A Physics II course offered in the 2015-2016 academic year at IIT Kanpur. It introduces the seven instructors for the course and provides details on lecture times and locations, tutorial sessions, evaluation criteria consisting of exams, quizzes and assignments, textbooks, and a link to the course webpage. The course aims to provide students with fundamentals of electromagnetism and vector calculus applications.

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Phy103 Handout

This document provides information about the PHY103A Physics II course offered in the 2015-2016 academic year at IIT Kanpur. It introduces the seven instructors for the course and provides details on lecture times and locations, tutorial sessions, evaluation criteria consisting of exams, quizzes and assignments, textbooks, and a link to the course webpage. The course aims to provide students with fundamentals of electromagnetism and vector calculus applications.

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PHY103A: PHYSICS II (2015-2016, Semster-II)

Department of Physics, IIT Kanpur


This course is one of the three foundational courses for the first year of Engineering and Sciences
curriculum and seeks to provide the student with the basics of the electromagnetic paradigm. In
addition, a thorough grounding in this course helps tackle many more courses in the undergraduate
programme involving applications of vector calculus, and fields, flux, flow and potential in general.
Instructors:
Dr. Dipankar Chakrabarti, office: FB 489, Ph: 6696, email id: dipankar (Tutorial Section: T1, L9)
Dr. Anand K. Jha, office: FB 351, Ph: 7014, email id: akjha (Tutorial Section: T1, L9)
Prof. H. Wanare, office: SL 217D, Ph: 7885, email id: hwanare (Tutorial Section: T2, L10)
Prof. R. C. Budhani, office: SL 113, Ph: 7185, email id: rcb (Tutorial Section: T3, L11)
Prof. Sudeep Bhattacharjee, office:Central Nuclear Lab, Ph: 7602, email id: sudeepb (Tutorial
Section: T4, L12)
Dr. Saurav M. Tripathy, office: KD221(old CS building), Ph: 6871, email id: smt (Tutorial
Section: T5, L14 )
Dr. Suratna Das, office: FB 378, Ph: 6148, email id: suratna
Schedule and location:
Lectures: Mon, Wed, Fri, 11:00-12:00, L7 (all sections)
Tutorial: Tue, 11:-12:00, (L9: tutorial sec. T1; L10: sec T2; L11:sec T3, L12,sec T4, L14, sec T5)
Office hours: Tuesday: 5pm-6pm.
Course contents:
1. Introduction to vector analysis and calculus
2. Electric field, charge distributions, Gauss's law, potentials, energy of charge distributions,
conductors and capacitors
3. Laplace equation, uniqueness theorems, method of images
4. Multipole expansions
5. Fields and interaction of dipoles
6. Electrostatics of material media
7. Linear dielectrics, force on a dielectric
8. Magnetic fields, current distributions, Bio-Savart law
9. Ampere's law, magnetic vector potential
10. Magnetostatics of material media
11. Electromagnetic induction
12. Maxwell's equations, displacement current
13. Energy and momentum of plane electromagnetic waves, Poynting's theorem
14. The wave equation, polarization
15. Reflection and transmission coefficients for dielectric, Brewster's angle, total internal
reflection etc.
Text books:
1. D. J. Griffiths, Introduction to Electrodynamics,
2. E. M. Purcell, Electricity and Magnetism: berkley physics course -Vol. 2
Evaluation:
Mid-sem Examination: 80 marks
End-sem examination: 120 marks
Quiz: 2 x 10 marks
Schedule for quizes: Quiz-1: February 2, 2016 (tutorial), Quiz-2: March 29, 2016 (tutorial)
Course Webpage: http://home.iitk.ac.in/~akjha/PHY103.htm
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Note: The tutorials will be held on Tuesdays, the problem set (pdf file) will be sent to you by email,
you may also dpownload it from the course webpage or collect it from COPY POINT in the shopping
center. Hope you will make full use of all the opportunities to understand and enrich your knowledge
on the subject.

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