These lecture notes have been prepared as a means of remote instruction during the Covid-19 emergency. They have the format of annotated lecture slides. There are 36 pdf files, named Lecture 1 through Lecture 36, one file for each lecture of the semester. Each page shows one lecture slide with comment underneath that are similar to oral remarks given by the instructor in the auditorium. The last page shows the quiz for that lecture.

Video presentations of these lectures are available on YouTube. Search "YouTube Rob Coyne PHY 204"

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01. Introduction. Electric charge. Electrostatic force, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne

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02. Coulomb force in 2D. Electric field. Superposition principle, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne

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03. Motion of charged particles. Electric dipole, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne

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04. Electric field of extended objects. Electric flux, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne

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05. Gauss’s law for the electric field with applications, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne

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06. Applications of Gauss's law. Charged conductors at equilibrium, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne

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07. Applications of Gauss's law to charged conductors at equilibrium, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne

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08. Electric potential and potential energy, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne

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09. Applications of electric potential and energy conservation, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne

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10. Electrostatic field and electric potential, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne

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11. Electric potential of conductors, electric dipole, and point-charge configurations, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne

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12. Capacitance of and energy stored in capacitors. Parallel and series connections, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne

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13. Analysis of capacitor circuits at equilibrium, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne

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14. Capacitors with dielectrics, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne

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15. Electric current and current density. Resistivity, resistance, and resistor, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne

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16. Analysis of one-loop resistor circuits, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne

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17. Kirchhoff's rules. Two-loop resistor circuits, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne

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18. Analysis of RC circuits. Charging and discharging processes, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne

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19. Magnetic force on currents or moving charged particles, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne

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20. Magnetic force applications, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne

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21. Torque acting on current loops. Magnetic dipole moment, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne

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22. Applications of magnetic force and torque. Hall effect, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne

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23. Sources of magnetic field. Law of Biot and Savart. Simple applications, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne

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24. Magnetic field of current configurations. A glimpse of relativity, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne

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25. Gauss's law for the magnetic field. Ampere's law with applications, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne

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26. Applications of Ampere's law and the law of Biot and Savart, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne

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27. Motional EMF. Faraday's law with applications., Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne

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28. Lenz's rule. Applications of Faraday's law, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne

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29. Inductance and energy stored in inductors. Self-induction. Mutual induction, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne

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30. Analysis of RL circuits. Current buildup and shutdown processes, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne

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31. LC oscillator and mechanical analogue. Electric/magnetic energy conversion, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne

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32. Single-device ac circuits. RLC series circuit, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne

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33. RLC parallel circuit. Resonant ac circuits, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne

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34. Applications of ac circuits. Transformer. Amplitudes versus rms value, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne

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35. Maxwell's equations. Displacement current. Wave equation, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne

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36. Electromagnetic waves. Poynting vector. Another glimpse of relativity, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne