Coulomb’s law – Resultant force due to system of charges and charge distribution - Electric field due to point charge, system of charges and charge distribution - Motion of electric charges in a uniform field - Gauss’s law: Formal derivation- Applications of Gauss's law to determine electric field in planar, cylindrical geometry and spherical symmetry – Field inside conductor –Experimental verification of Gauss law and Coulomb law –Potential difference and electrostatic potential – Electric field from potential - Electric field and potential due to point charges, charge distribution and charged conductors – Conservation of energy – Problem solving

Capacitance of parallel plate capacitor , spherical capacitor and cylindrical capacitor – Combination of capacitors –Energy stored in a capacitor - Capacitors with dielectrics – Dipoles in electric field -Atomic view of dielectrics, polarization - Electric field due to a polarized material - Gauss’s law in dielectrics - Dielectric constant - Energy density of an electrostatic field (with and without dielectric) - Polarizability and susceptibility – Frequency dependence of polarizability - Clausius- Mossotti equation -Problem solving

Definition of B, Magnetic force on a moving charged particle – Hall effect - Circulating charged particle – Cyclotron and Synchroton – Magnetic force on current carrying wire – Torque on a current carrying loop – Magnetic dipole moment –Magnetic field due to current – Biot Savart 's law – Magnetic field due to long straight wire, Circular arc of wire - Force between two parallel currents – Ampere's law- Application to long straight current carrying wire, solenoids and toroids –Gauss law in magnetism –Displacement current and the general form of Ampere’s law – Magnetic moment of atoms –Magnetization vector and magnetic field strength –Classification of magnetic materials(Qualitative discussion only)

Faraday's law of induction – Applications – Motional emf - Lenz's law –Induced emf and electric fields –Applications in generators and motors – Self inductance –Mutual inductance –Transformers –Series RLC circuit -Eddy currents –Maxwell’s equations in free space and their physical meaning- Mazwell’s equation and Hertz discoveries -Plane electromagnetic waves: Equation, solution and characteristics: Energy carried by electromagnetic waves: Poynting vector

Kirchoff’s laws -Application to multiloop circuits, Potentiometer, Galvanometer and Carey-Foster bridge – Rise and decay of current in RC circuit - Oscillations in LC circuit –Resistors in AC circuit –Inductors in AC circuit: Phasor digram and inductive reactance –Capacitors in AC circuit-Phasor digram and capacitive reactance –Series RLC circuit: Phasor diagram and Impedance –Power in A.C. circuit –Resonance in series RLC circuit –Transformers and power transmission -Theory of Moving coil ballistic galvanometer: Sensitivity and Figure of merit