ECE 271Electric and Magnetic Fields
- Faculty
- Engineering
- Last listed
- 1976–77
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1970–71 to 1976–77; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
Vector analysis; Coulomb’s law and electric field intensity; electric flux density; Gauss’ law and divergence; energy and potential; conductors, dielectrics, capacitance: experimental mapping methods; Poisson’s and Laplace’s equations; the steady magnetic field; magnetic forces, materials and inductance; time varying fields and Maxwell’s equations. Prerequisites: GE122 or equivalent
As printed in the 1972–73 to 1976–77 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 1970–71 to 1976–77, 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.
1972–73 to 1976–77 5 calendars
Vector analysis; Coulomb’s law and electric field intensity; electric flux density; Gauss’ law and divergence; energy and potential; conductors, dielectrics, capacitance: experimental mapping methods; Poisson’s and Laplace’s equations; the steady magnetic field; magnetic forces, materials and inductance; time varying fields and Maxwell’s equations. Prerequisites: GE122 or equivalent
1970–71 to 1971–72 2 calendars
Electrostatics: Coulomb’s law, electric fields and potentials, electric flux and Gauss’ law, electric energy, capacitors, dielectric material. Magnetostatics: Ampere’s law, magnetic field and force, Biot-Savart Law, magnetic flux and energy, coils and solenoids, magnetic materials. Induced EMF: Faraday’s law, Lenz’s law, mutual and self-inductance, simple transformers, induced EMF on a moving system, simple electric motors and generators. Introduction to Maxwell’s equations. 2 lectures, 3 hours laboratory alternate weeks, 1 seminar, one term.