General Physics II (PHY 121) CBT Practice
Prepare for General Physics II (PHY 121) with BarTech CBT. This second-semester university course covers electricity and magnetism, including electrostatics, electric fields and potential, DC circuits, magnetic fields, electromagnetic induction, Maxwell's equations and AC circuits.
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Start PHY 121 CBT PracticeAbout PHY 121: General Physics II
General Physics II (Electricity & Magnetism) covers electrostatics, electric charge and its properties, methods of charging, Coulomb's law and superposition, electric field and potential, Gauss's law and capacitance.
The course also covers current, voltage and resistance, DC circuit analysis, magnetic fields, Lorentz force, Biot-Savart and Ampère's laws, electromagnetic induction, Faraday and Lenz's laws, transformers, Maxwell's equations, electromagnetic oscillations and AC voltages and currents.
PHY 121 Learning Outcomes
On completion, the student should be able to:
- Describe the electric field and potential and related concepts, for stationary charges.
- Calculate electrostatic properties of simple charge distributions using Coulomb's law, Gauss's law and electric potential.
- Describe and determine the magnetic field for steady and moving charges.
- Determine the magnetic properties of simple current distributions using Biot-Savart and Ampère's law.
- Describe electromagnetic induction and related concepts and make calculations using Faraday and Lenz's laws.
- Explain the basic physical meaning of Maxwell's equations in integral form.
- Evaluate DC circuits to determine the electrical parameters.
- Determine the characteristics of AC voltages and currents in resistors, capacitors and inductors.
PHY 121 Course Contents
- Forces in nature
- Electrostatics
- Electric charge and its properties
- Methods of charging
- Coulomb's law
- Superposition
- Electric field and potential
- Gauss's law
- Capacitance
- Electric dipoles
- Energy in electric fields
- Conductors and insulators
- Current, voltage and resistance
- Ohm's law
- Analysis of DC circuits
- Magnetic fields
- Lorentz force
- Biot-Savart law
- Ampère's law
- Magnetic dipoles
- Dielectrics
- Energy in magnetic fields
- Electromotive force
- Electromagnetic induction
- Self and mutual inductances
- Faraday's law
- Lenz's law
- Step-up and step-down transformers
- Maxwell's equations
- Electromagnetic oscillations and waves
- AC voltages and currents applied to inductors
- AC voltages and currents applied to capacitors
- AC voltages and currents applied to resistance
- AC combinations
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