Unit 1 Review of Vector Analysis

4 lecture hours

• scalars and vectors
• unit vector
• vector addition and subtraction
• position and distance vectors
• dot product
• cross product
• scalar triple product
• vector triple product
• components of a vector
• Cartesian co-ordinate system
• Circular cylindrical co-ordinate system
• Spherical co-ordinate system
• transformation from one co-ordinate to other co- ordinate systems

Unit 2 Static Electric Fields

8 lecture hours

• Coulomb’s law, Electric field intensity
• Electric field due to point and line charges
• Line surface and volume charge distributions
• Gauss’ law and its applications
• Divergence theorem
• Absolute Electric potential
• Potential difference
• Potential gradient
• Calculation of potential difference for different configurations
• Electric dipole
• Electrostatic energy and energy density

Unit 3 Conductors, Dielectrics and Capacitance

6 lecture hours

• Current and current density
• Ohm’s law in point form
• Continuity equation
• Conductor- dielectric boundary condition
• Dielectric-dielectric boundary condition
• Polarization in dielectrics
• Capacitance of two wire line

Unit 4 Poisson’s and Laplace’s equations

4 lecture hours

• Poisson’s equation
• Laplace’s equation
• Uniqueness theorem
• Solution of Poisson’s and Laplace’s equation
• Application of Poisson’s and Laplace’s equations

Unit 5 Steady Magnetic Fields

• Biot Savart’s law, Ampere’s law, Curl operation
• Stoke’s theorem
• Magnetic flux and magnetic flux density
• Scalar and vector magnetic potentials
• Steady magnetic field produced by current carrying conductors 08 Subject Code: 3140912 w.e.f