Part IB Physics B - Electromagnetism
Handouts
Handouts are available on the physics teaching web pages for this course.
Other Links
Some of these may be out of date - please let CJBF know if so, or if you find any other good links.
Some very nice electromagnetic field lines demonstrations from John Belcher at MIT http://web.mit.edu/8.02t/www/802TEAL3D/teal_tour.htm and the main index page there for electricity and magnetism.
A "hyper-physics" tour of electromagnetism and of the whole of physics.
Visualisations of electromagnetic systems (by MIT).
More visualisations of electromagnetic systems, made using Matlab (by MIT).
Very interesting simulations from falstad.com, e.g.:
- 3-D Electrostatic Fields Applet,
- 3-D Magnetostatic Fields Applet,
- 2-D Electrodynamics Applet (TE).
- Waveguide simulator - play with the various sliders and drop-down menus! eg Show Sides, Show Magnetic Field, Show Field Vectors.
Parallel-Plate Waveguide Simulations (by piers.org), egthis one.
Java solution of Poisson's equation for a capacitor whose plates can be dragged around.
Some pretty pictures of the northern lights (aurora borealis).