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Applied Physics

Applied Physics from the first idea to exam level: every lesson builds on the one before, with a worked example, a step-through diagram where it helps, a quick check and practice that adapts to what you know. Follows Halliday, Resnick & Walker, Fundamentals of Physics.

Applied Physics at a glance

What does Applied Physics cover?

Vectors, Charge & Coulomb's Law, Electric Fields, Gauss's Law, Electric Potential, Current & Resistance, Magnetic Force, Charges in Magnetic Fields, Sources of Magnetic Fields, Electromagnetic Induction and Maxwell's Equations. It follows Halliday, Resnick & Walker, Fundamentals of Physics.

How many lessons does the Applied Physics course on Studious have?

13 units and 34 lessons, from "Scalars, vectors and angles" to "Maxwell's equations". Each lesson has a worked example, a quick check and practice that adapts to what you know, and many have step-by-step diagrams.

Course outline

  1. Unit 1 · Week 1

    Vectors

    1. Scalars, vectors and angles
    2. Adding and subtracting vectors
    3. Components and resolving forces
  2. Unit 2 · Week 2

    Electric charge

    1. Charges, conductors and insulators
    2. Coulomb's law
  3. Unit 3 · Week 3

    The electric field

    1. What an electric field is
    2. Electric field lines
    3. Charges moving in a uniform field
  4. Unit 4 · Week 4

    Fields of charge distributions

    1. Continuous charge and the ring
    2. The disk and the infinite sheet
    3. Dipoles in an electric field
  5. Unit 5 · Week 5

    Gauss's law

    1. Electric flux
    2. Gauss's law
    3. Applying Gauss's law
  6. Unit 6 · Weeks 6–7

    Electric potential

    1. Potential difference and electric potential
    2. Potential in a uniform field
    3. Point charges: potential and potential energy
  7. Unit 7 · Week 8

    Current and resistance

    1. Current and current density
    2. Resistance, resistivity and Ohm's law
    3. Electrical energy and power
  8. Unit 8 · Week 9

    Magnetic fields and forces

    1. The magnetic force on a moving charge
    2. The force on a current-carrying wire
  9. Unit 9 · Weeks 10–11

    Charged particles in magnetic fields

    1. Circular motion in a magnetic field
    2. Velocity selectors and mass spectrometers
    3. The Hall effect
  10. Unit 10 · Week 12

    Biot–Savart and Ampère

    1. The Biot–Savart law
    2. Ampère's law
  11. Unit 11 · Week 13

    Solenoids and magnetic flux

    1. The magnetic field of a solenoid
    2. Magnetic flux
  12. Unit 12 · Week 14

    Faraday's law

    1. Faraday's law of induction
    2. Lenz's law
    3. Motional emf
  13. Unit 13 · Week 15

    Induced fields and Maxwell's equations

    1. Induced electric fields
    2. Maxwell's equations

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