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PYE 314 Electromagnetism I

HND1 levelEngineering & Technology31 topics

PYE 314 covers 31 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Electrostatic fields and Coulomb’s law
  2. Electric field intensity and electric potential
  3. Gauss’s law and Maxwell’s first equation
  4. Laplace’s and Poisson’s equations
  5. Electric dipoles and dipole moment
  6. Conductors, insulators and dielectric polarization
  7. Permittivity, dielectric constant and susceptibility
  8. Dielectric boundary conditions and energy in dielectrics
  9. Capacitance and types of capacitors
  10. Energy stored in capacitors
  11. Current density, conduction and convection currents
  12. Ohm’s law in point form and continuity equation
  13. Static magnetic fields and Biot–Savart law
  14. Magnetic field intensity, flux and flux density
  15. Ampere’s law and Maxwell’s equations
  16. Magnetic properties of materials
  17. Classical free electron theory
  18. Electrical conduction in metals
  19. Temperature dependence of resistivity
  20. Limitations of classical electron theory
  21. Relaxation time and mean free path
  22. Fermi energy and Fermi-Dirac statistics
  23. Density of states
  24. Fermi distribution function
  25. Heat capacity of electron gas
  26. Band theory of solids
  27. Intrinsic semiconductors
  28. Extrinsic semiconductors
  29. Carrier transport in semiconductors
  30. Hall effect
  31. P-N junction and diode characteristics

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Electrostatic fields and Coulomb’s law

Electrostatic fields and Coulomb’s law cover the definition of the electric field, the quantitative law that governs the force between point charges, and the way fields are represented and superimposed. Mastery of these concepts is essential for solving problems on force, potential, and field distribution in the NUC, CCMAS, NBTE, and NCCE syllabi.

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