Main Objectives for Electric Currents and Magnetism

Be able to use Ohm's law and the capacitor relation to solve circuit problems
 Know circuit elements (resistor, capacitor, battery, ground, wire) and constructing circuit diagrams
 Understand how to interpret circuit diagrams and several diagrams for the same circuit
 Understand Kirchhoff's Junction Law and how to apply it to a circuit and the sign conventions
 Understand Kirchhoff's loop Law and how to apply it to a circuit and the sign conventions
 Be able to recognize paralle and serries circuit elements and finding equivalents
 Know how current and voltage is measured for circuit elements and how to connect (series, parallel)
 Know how to simplifiy circuits, apply appropriate laws and work backwards to solve for unknowns
 Be able to describe how Kirchoff's Rules are related to charge and energy conservation
 Understand household electricity concepts of hot, neutral, ground circuit breakers, circuits and kW-hr
 Be able to calculate the time constant for an RC circuit and know what it tells you about the circuit
 Know how to solve for the current, voltage and charge in RC circuits  after a given amount of time has passed
 Understand magnetism, magnetic field lines, dipoles, N-S interaction and the Earth as a magnet
 Be able to calculate the force a magnetic field exerts on either a charged particle or a wire carrying a current
 Be able to predict the trajectory of a charged particle in a magnetic field
 Be able to explain how a mass spectrometer works
 Be able to find the torque on a current loop in a constant magnetic field
 Be able to discuss magnetic forces and fields qualitatively. 
 (This includes effects of magnetic poles on one another and on non-magnetized objects)
 Be able to discuss ferromagnetic materials and magnetic domains
 Be able to calculate the magnetic field produced by currents in straight wires, loops and solenoids.
 Be able to apply superpostion of multiple magnetic fields to find the total magnetic field
 Know how to determine the magnitude and direction of forces between multiple wires carrying currents.
 Be able to use Lenz's and Faraday's Laws to find the magnitude and direction of the induced current 
 Be able to define magnetic flux
 Understand the emf generated in a wire moving in a magnetic field and the relation to Faraday's law (loop)
 Be able to discuss eddy currents
 Be able to explain how an AC generator works
 Understand Maxwell's Theory about propagating electromagnetic waves
 Be able to apply the principles of waves, intensity of E&M waves, speed of light, point sources
 Know about the polarization of E&M waves and the intensity dependence
 Understand the photon model of E&M waves, the E&M spectrum
 Know about antennas for transmitting and receiving E&M waves
 Understand the spectral dependence of thermal emission
 Know about color vision in the human eye