ECE 13Electricity and Magnetism
- Faculty
- Engineering
- Last listed
- 1968–69
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1966–67 to 1968–69; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
Vector algebra; gradient, divergence, curl. Electrostatics; review of Coulomb’s law, electric fields and forces due to point and continuous charge distributions. Gauss’s law. Review of potential, Laplace’s, Poisson’s equations, capacitance. Dielectrics. Magnetostatistics; forces in magnetic fields, induction, Biot- Savart law, Ampere’s circuital law. Induced EMF; Faraday induction, Lenz’s law, self and mutual inductance, transformers. Magnetic materials; magnetization, reluctance, magnetic circuits. Maxwell’s equations; plane waves, Poynting’s vector. Prerequisite: EE 12 3 hours lectures, 3 hours laboratory every third week. 1 hour tutorial, one term.
As printed in the 1967–68 to 1968–69 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original.
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In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1966–67 to 1968–69, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1967–68 to 1968–69 2 calendars
Vector algebra; gradient, divergence, curl. Electrostatics; review of Coulomb’s law, electric fields and forces due to point and continuous charge distributions. Gauss’s law. Review of potential, Laplace’s, Poisson’s equations, capacitance. Dielectrics. Magnetostatistics; forces in magnetic fields, induction, Biot- Savart law, Ampere’s circuital law. Induced EMF; Faraday induction, Lenz’s law, self and mutual inductance, transformers. Magnetic materials; magnetization, reluctance, magnetic circuits. Maxwell’s equations; plane waves, Poynting’s vector. Prerequisite: EE 12
3 hours lectures, 3 hours laboratory every third week.
1 hour tutorial, one term.
1966–67 1 calendar
Magnetostatics, magnetic susceptibility, permeability. Magnetic circuits, boundary conditions reluctance. Ferromagnetism, hysteresis, permanent magnets. Electromagnetic induction, Faraday’s Law, Lenz’s Law. Motional e.m.f. Mutual and _ self-inductance. Transient behaviour of L-R and C-R circuits. Periodic waveforms, R.M.S., average and peak values. Alternating currents. Impedance and reactance. Phasor representation, complex notation. A-C circuits and transformers. Maxwell’s equations, electromagnetic waves in one dimension, Poynting’s vector.
Department of Electrical Engineering