"Let There Be Light!"
Introductory Experiments with
Electric and Magnetic Fields

Glenn M. Julian juliangm@muohio.edu
and Joseph Priest priestjr@muohio.edu
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056

Peter Heller pheller@brandeis.edu
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02254-9110


Supported in part by NSF Curriculum and Course Development Program
Grant #DUE-9555215

Experiments for the introductory calculus-based physics course provide hands-on experience with the fundamental principles of electromagnetism, especially with E and B fields and the corresponding field equations. Electrical measurements, especially the use of the oscilloscope, figure importantly in this approach.


If you'd like, you may choose Links to more detailed descriptions of the individual experiments are provided below.


EXPERIMENTS

Hands-on experience with these experiments, intended for the undergraduate introductory calculus-based physics course, was provided in Workshop W01 at the 1997 AAPT Summer Meeting in Denver. See the AAPT Announcer 27, July 1997, p. 59.

Updated 28 May 2002

For additional information e-mail Glenn M. Julian, juliangm@muohio.edu