Department of Physics IIT Kanpur

PHY103A (Physics-II); Semester-II, 2017-18 Units: 3-1-0-11

Course Objectives:
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, fields, flux flows and
potential in general.

Course content:
1st Part: Introduction to vector analysis and calculus; Electric field, charge distributions, Gauss's law, potentials; energy
of charge distributions, conductors and capacitors; Laplace equation, uniqueness theorems, method of images;
Multipole expansions; Fields and interaction of dipoles; Electrostatics of material media; Linear dielectrics, force on a
dielectric; Magnetic fields, current distributions, Bio-Savart law; Ampere's law, Magnetic vector potential;
Magnetostatics of material media.

2nd Part: Electromagnetic induction; Maxwell's equations, displacement current; Energy and momentum of plane
electromagnetic waves, Poynting's theorem; The wave equation, polarization; Reflection and transmission coefficients
for dielectric, Brewster's angle, total internal reflection.

Text books:
1. D. J. Griffiths, Introduction to Electrodynamics,
2. E. M. Purcell, Electricity and Magnetism: Berkley Physics course -Vol. 2

Course Webpage: http://home.iitk.ac.in/~akjha/PHY103.htm

Lecture: Mondays, Wednesdays, & Fridays:11:00 – 11:50 am, L20;

Tutorial: Tuesdays: 11:00 -11:50 am; (Tut Sec-A: L2; Tut Sec-B: L4; Tut Sec-C: L5; Tut Sec-D: L6).
Note: The problem sets will be posted on the course webpage about a week ahead of the scheduled tutorial.

Instructor(s):
1. Dr. Anand K. Jha; Off: CL-104D; Ph: 7014; email: akjha@iitk.ac.in; Tut Sec-C; Office hour: Friday 2:30-3:30 pm
2. Dr. Sagar Chakraborty; Off: FB-487; Ph: 6584; email: sagarc@iitk.ac.in; Tut Sec-C; Office hour: Friday 2:30-3:30 pm
Tutors:
3. Dr. Harshawardhan Wanare; Off: SL-217D; Ph: 7885; email: hwanare@iitk.ac.in ; Tut Sec-A; Office hour: Fri 4-5 pm
4. Dr. Dipankar Chakrabarti; Off: FB-489; Ph: 6696, email: dipankar@iitk.ac.in; Tut Sec-B; Office hour: Tues 5-6 pm
5. Dr. Saurabh M. Tripathi, Off: CL-103C; Ph: 6871, email: smt@iitk.ac.in; Tut Sec-D; Office hour: Fri 4-5 pm
6. (Back-up Tutor) Dr. Suratna Das; Off: FB-378; Ph: 6148; email: suratna@iitk.ac.in

TAs: Sourav Biswas (souravbs); Jitendra Pradhan (jitendra); Soumendu Ghosh (soumendu); Tripurari Srivastava (tripurar );
Girish Kulkarni (girishk); Rohitashwa Chattopadhyay (crohit ); Archan Mukhopadhyay (archan); Utso Bhattacharya (butso);
Abhinandan Bhattarcharjee (abhib ); Anurag (anuragsh)

Evaluation: Mid-Sem=80; End-Sem=120; Quiz#1=10 (Tues, 06-Feb); Quiz#2=10 (Tues, 03-Apr). Total=220
Course Policies:
1. Students not appearing in the End-Sem exam will be allotted F grade.
2. There will be biometric attendance. Less than 90% attendance may disqualify from appearing in the End-Sem exam.
3. Only SUGC sanctioned leaves will be considered as valid reasons for absences during lectures/quizzes/exams.
4. DOAA guidelines on unfair means will be strictly adopted. Please check the DOAA guidelines here.