NCHU Course Outline
Course Name (中) 普通物理學(1294)
(Eng.) General Physics
Offering Dept Department of Physics
Course Type Required Credits 3 Teacher PING-CHENG LI
Department Department of Electrical Engineering/Undergraduate Language English Semester 2026-SPRING
Course Description Introduce important phenomena and content on electromagnetism. Topics include: electricity, magnetism, electric current, electrical circuit, physical mechanisms behind some electronic coponents and electomagnetic waves.
Prerequisites
self-directed learning in the course Y
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Course Objectives Competency Indicators Ratio(%) Teaching Methods Assessment Methods
1. Acquire fundamental knowledge of elctromagnetic phenomena.
2. Be able to make analysis to simple electrical circuits.

















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Course Content and Homework/Schedule/Tests Schedule
Week Course Content
Week 1 CHAPTER 21 ELECTRIC CHARGE
21-1 What is physics?
21-2 Electric charge
21-3 Conductors and insulators
21-4 Coulomb’s law
21-5 Charge is quantized
21-6 Charge is conserved
Week 2 CHAPTER 22 ELECTRIC FIELDS
22-1 What is physics?
22-2 The electric field
22-3 Electric field lines
22-4 The electric field due to a point charge
Week 3 22-5 The electric field due to an electric dipole
22-6 The electric field due to a line of charge
22-7 The electric field due to a charged disk
Week 4 22-8 A point charge in an electric field
22-9 A dipole in an electric field

CHAPTER 23 GAUSS’ LAW
23-1 What is physics?
23-2 Flux
23-3 Flux of an electric field
23-4 Gauss’ law
23-5 Gauss’ law and Coulomb’s law
23-6 A charged isolated conductor
Week 5 23-7 Applying Gauss’ law:cylindrical symmetry
23-8 Applying Gauss’ law:planar symmetry
23-9 Applying Gauss’ law:spherical symmetry
Week 6 CHAPTER 24 ELECTRIC POTENTIAL
24-1 What is physics?
24-2 Electric potential energy
24-3 Electric potential
24-4 Equipotential surface
Week 7 24-5 Calculating the potential from the field
24-6 Potential due to a point charge
24-7 Potential due to a group of point charges
24-8 Potential due to an electric dipole
24-9 Potential due to a continuous charge distribution
Week 8 24-10 Calculating the field from the potential
24-11 Electric potential energy of a system of point charges
24-12 Potential of a charged isolated conductor
Week 9 HAPTER 25 CAPACITANCE
25-1 What is physics?
25-2 Capacitance
25-3 Calculating the capacitance
25-4 Capacitors in parallel and in series
Week 10 25-5 Energy stored in an electric field
25-6 Capacitor with a dielectric
25-7 Dielectrics: An atomic view
25-8 Dielectrics and Gauss’ law
Week 11 CHAPTER 26 CURRENT AND RESISTANCE
26-1 What is physics?
26-2 Electric current
26-3 current density
26-4 Resistance and resistivity
Week 12 26-5 Ohm’s law
26-6 A microscopic view of Ohm’s law
26-7 Power in electric circuit
26-8 Semiconductors
26-9 Superconductors
Week 13 CHAPTER 27 CIRCUIT
27-1 What is physics?
27-2 ”Pumping” charges
27-3 Work, energy, and EMF
27-4 Calculating the current in a single-loop circuit
27-5 Other single-loop circuits
27-6 Potential difference between two points
27-7 Multiloop circuit
Week 14 27-8 The ammeter and the voltmeter
27-9 RC-circuits
Week 15 CHAPTER 28 MAGNETIC FIELDS
28-1 What is physics?
28-2 What produces a magnetic field?
28-3 The definition of B
28-4 Crossed fields: discovery of the electron
28-5 Crossed fields: The Hall effect
28-6 A circulating charged particle
28-7 Cyclotrons and synchrotrons
Week 16 28-8 Magnetic force on a current-carrying wire
28-9 Torque on a current loop
28-10 The magnetic dipole moment



CHAPTER 29 MAGNETIC FIELD DUE TO CURRENTS
29-1 What is physics?
29-2 Calculating the magnetic field due to a current
Ѕ-3 Force between two parallel currents
29-4 Ampere’s law
29-5 Solenoids and toroids
29-6 A current-carrying coil as a magnetic dipole

CHAPTER 30 INDUCTION AND INDUCTANCE
30-1 What is physics?
30-2 Two experiments
30-3 Faraday’s law of induction
30-4 Lenz’s law
30-5 Induction and energy transfer
30-6 Induced electric fields
30-7 Inductors and Inductance
30-8 Self-induction
30-9 RL circuits
30-10 Energy stored in a magnetic field
30-11 Energy density of a magnetic field
30-12 Mutual induction
self-directed
learning
   01.Participation in professional forums, lectures, and corporate sharing sessions related to industry-government-academia-research exchange activities.
   02.Viewing multimedia materials related to industry and academia.
   05.Participation in various workshops organized by different departments of NCHU.

Evaluation
1. Homework assignments
2. Midterm and final term examinations
3. Quiz









Textbook & other References
”Principles of Physics” -12th edition (extended)
by Halliday, Resnick and Jearl Walker

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Principle of Physics (12th edition); Authors: Halliday & Resnick, Jearl Walker; Publisher: Wiley;
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