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"
Submissions from 2020
01. Introduction. Electric charge. Electrostatic force, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne
02. Coulomb force in 2D. Electric field. Superposition principle, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne
03. Motion of charged particles. Electric dipole, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne
04. Electric field of extended objects. Electric flux, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne
05. Gauss’s law for the electric field with applications, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne
06. Applications of Gauss's law. Charged conductors at equilibrium, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne
07. Applications of Gauss's law to charged conductors at equilibrium, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne
08. Electric potential and potential energy, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne
09. Applications of electric potential and energy conservation, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne
10. Electrostatic field and electric potential, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne
11. Electric potential of conductors, electric dipole, and point-charge configurations, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne
12. Capacitance of and energy stored in capacitors. Parallel and series connections, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne
13. Analysis of capacitor circuits at equilibrium, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne
14. Capacitors with dielectrics, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne
15. Electric current and current density. Resistivity, resistance, and resistor, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne
16. Analysis of one-loop resistor circuits, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne
17. Kirchhoff's rules. Two-loop resistor circuits, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne
18. Analysis of RC circuits. Charging and discharging processes, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne
19. Magnetic force on currents or moving charged particles, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne
20. Magnetic force applications, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne
21. Torque acting on current loops. Magnetic dipole moment, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne
22. Applications of magnetic force and torque. Hall effect, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne
23. Sources of magnetic field. Law of Biot and Savart. Simple applications, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne
24. Magnetic field of current configurations. A glimpse of relativity, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne
25. Gauss's law for the magnetic field. Ampere's law with applications, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne
26. Applications of Ampere's law and the law of Biot and Savart, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne
27. Motional EMF. Faraday's law with applications., Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne
28. Lenz's rule. Applications of Faraday's law, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne
29. Inductance and energy stored in inductors. Self-induction. Mutual induction, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne
30. Analysis of RL circuits. Current buildup and shutdown processes, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne
31. LC oscillator and mechanical analogue. Electric/magnetic energy conversion, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne
32. Single-device ac circuits. RLC series circuit, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne
33. RLC parallel circuit. Resonant ac circuits, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne
34. Applications of ac circuits. Transformer. Amplitudes versus rms value, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne
35. Maxwell's equations. Displacement current. Wave equation, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne
36. Electromagnetic waves. Poynting vector. Another glimpse of relativity, Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne