NOTE: Attempt any FIVE questions selecting at least TWO questions from each section.

Section-I (5/9)

Electrostatic Fields

•    Coulomb’s law, The electric field intensity and potential

•    Gauss’s law and deductions, Poisson and Laplace equations

•    Conductors and condensers

•    Dipoles, The linear quadrupole

•    Potential energy of a charge distribution, Dielectrics

•    The polarization and the displacement vectors

Magnetostatic Fields

•    The Magnetostatic law of force

•    The magnetic induction

•    The Lorentz force on a point charge moving in a magnetic field

•    The divergence of the magnetic field

•    The vector potential

•    The conservation of charge and the equation of continuity

•    The Lorentz condition 

•    The curl of the magnetic field

•    Ampere’s law and the scalar potential

Steady and Slowly Varying Currents

•    Electric current, Linear conductors

•    Conductivity, Resistance

•    Kirchhoff’s laws 

•    Current density vector

•    Magnetic field of straight and circular current

•    Magnetic flux, Vector potential

•    Forces on a circuit in magnetic field

•    The Faraday induction law

•    Induced elecromotance in a moving system

•    Inductance and induced electromotance

•    Energy stored in a magnetic field



Section-II (4/9)

The Equations of Electromagnetism

•    Maxwell’s equations in free space and material media

•    Solution of Maxwell’s equations

Electromagnetic Waves

•    Plane electromagnetic waves in homogeneous and isotropic media

•    The Poynting vector in free space

•    Propagation of plane electromagnetic waves in non-conductors

•    Propagation of plane electromagnetic waves in conducting media

•    Reflection and refraction of plane waves

Guided Waves

•    Guided waves, Coaxial line, Hollow rectangular wave guide

•    Radiation of electromagnetic waves

•    Electromagnetic field of a moving charge