Overview

To develop in students familiarity with selected areas of classical physics and electromagnetism, particularly those areas relevant to modern applied science.

Requisites

Prerequisites
PHY10004 Electronics and Electromagnetism

AND EITHER
MTH20014 Matrices, Vector Calculus and Complex Analysis
OR
MTH20017 Mathematical Methods and Statistics for Engineering

Teaching Periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Semester 2
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
29-July-2024
27-October-2024
Last self-enrolment date
11-August-2024
Census date
31-August-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
13-September-2024
Results released date
03-December-2024

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Identify the fundamental concepts of classical mechanics and formulate solutions to a range of dynamical system problems (K1,K2,K3)
  • Describe and interpret the fundamental concepts of electromagnetism (K1,K2)
  • Apply physical principles to the analysis of problems in electromagnetism (K1, K2, K3)
  • Analyse experimental data and synthesize these results with your physics knowledge in order to communicate your ideas and conclusions in the form of a technical report (K2, A2)

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
On-campus
Lecture
2.00 12 weeks 24
On-campus
Class
2.00 12 weeks 24
On-campus
Lab
2.00 6 weeks 12
Unspecified Activities
Independent Learning
7.50 12 weeks 90
TOTAL150

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
AssignmentIndividual 10 - 30% 1,2,3 
ExaminationIndividual 40 - 60% 
Laboratory PracticalsIndividual 10 - 30% 1,2,3,4 
QuizzesIndividual 5 - 15% 1,2,3,4 

Hurdle

As the minimum requirements of assessment to pass a unit and meet all ULOs to a minimum standard, an undergraduate student must have achieved:

(i) an aggregate mark of 50% or more, and(ii) at least 40% in the final exam.Students who do not successfully achieve hurdle requirement (ii) will receive a maximum of 45% as the total mark for the unit.

Content

Classical Mechanics

  • Newton’s Laws
  • Vibrating systems
  • Rigid body dynamics
  • Lagrange’s equations
  •  Hamilton’s equations

Electromagnetism

  • Electrostatics
  • Magnetostatics
  • Electric and Magnetic Media
  • Maxwell’s Equations in Differential Forms
  • Time-Varying Fields
  • Electromagnetic Waves

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.