Electromagnetism Introduction Introduction
In a Nutshell
Electricity and magnetism seem like two different forces, but as we’ve learned, electrical and magnetic forces are actually different parts of the same electromagnetic force. Everything we’ve studied before still applies in this exciting unit, except that we’ll be dealing with three-dimensional objects now because we’re awesome like that.
Time to amp it up in style…we’ll revisit Coulomb’s law, electric fields, electric potential, magnetism, and we’ll even wander into the curling and diverging world of James Clerk Maxwell himself, who saw his theories as his guns1.
Along the way, we’ll confront Darth Vader, calculate electric and magnetic fields of complex objects (we’re guaranteed to feel very smart after all this), oscillate through capacitors and inductors, and discover exactly why electricity and magnetism, are, well, meant to be married for life.
E + M = TRUE LOVE FOREVER.