PHY-131 is the second part of a three-semester sequence in introductory
physics offered to engineering and other science and pre-professional
majors who have the appropriate background in mathematics. The
prerequisite for PHY-131 is the second semester of calculus, or, in
terms of its ASU course number, MAT-271; the third semester of calculus,
MAT-272, is a corequisite for the course. Since a working familiarity
with basic integral calculus will be assumed, the student who has not
had these courses or their equivalents should withdraw from the class.
Differential and integral calculus will be used regularly
throughout the course.
PHY-131 covers the subject of electricity and magnetism from the
electrostatics of Coulomb's law through electrodynamics, as contained
in Ampere's and Faraday's laws. Some DC and AC circuit analysis is done,
but only to illustrate the physical properties of simple circuit elements
and the concept of resonance in physical systems. The course concludes
with a discussion of Maxwell's equations and a brief introduction to
electromagnetic waves. A detailed list of topics can be found on the
Lecture Schedule which accompanies
this syllabus.