Advanced Electricity & Magnetism Learning Lab¶
Welcome to the User Guide for the Advanced Electricity & Magnetism Learning Lab, a companion virtual laboratory covering Electrostatics, Magnetostatics, Electrodynamics, Electromagnetic Waves & their propagation in different media, and the electric & magnetic properties of materials, at the undergraduate and postgraduate level.
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Every experiment and workshop below has a matching interactive panel in the simulator: 🔬 Launch the Simulator
This guide provides, for each of the 18 experiments: the theoretical background, governing formula, apparatus schematic, a step-by-step procedure, a blank observation table and graph grid for your own readings, a maximum permissible error calculator, precautions, and viva-voce questions — followed by 7 hands-on industrial workshops that let you apply the same physics to realistic engineering scenarios, each scored against an optimal target with a printable completion certificate at 100%.
Topics Covered¶
| Module | Experiments |
|---|---|
| Electrostatics | Coulomb's Law · Electric Dipole Field & Potential · Gauss's Law · Parallel-Plate Capacitor & Dielectrics · Conductors & the Van de Graaff Generator |
| Magnetostatics | Biot–Savart Law · Circular Coil & Helmholtz Coils · Ampere's Law (Solenoid & Toroid) · Force Between Parallel Conductors |
| Electrodynamics | Faraday's Law · Motional EMF & Lenz's Law · RC/RL Transients · LCR Series Resonance |
| EM Waves & Propagation | Maxwell's Equations & Plane Waves · Propagation in Dielectric/Conducting Media (Skin Depth) · Reflection, Refraction & Brewster's Angle |
| Electric & Magnetic Materials | Dielectric Polarization (Clausius–Mossotti) · Magnetic Hysteresis & the B–H Curve |
Industrial Workshops¶
- EMI/EMC Compliance Testing
- Transformer Design & Testing
- Antenna Radiation Pattern & Gain Optimization
- Eddy-Current Non-Destructive Testing
- Magnetic Shielding Enclosure Design
- High-Voltage Insulation & Breakdown (Paschen) Testing
- RF Impedance Matching & VSWR Minimization
How to Use This Guide¶
Each experiment page follows the same structure: Aim → Theoretical Background → Governing Formula → Interactive Controls → Procedure → Observation Table → Graph → Calculations → Result → Precautions → Maximum Permissible Error → Viva-Voce Questions. Work through the simulator panel alongside the page, fill in your own observation tables and graphs (the graph grids accept a pasted photo of any physical meter/CRO trace for tracing, exactly as in the Advanced Laser & Optics Learning Lab).
See also the Formula Reference, Glossary, and Safety pages.
Prepared & maintained by Dr. S. K. Jain, Associate Professor in Physics, Department of Applied Sciences and Humanities, Invertis University, Bareilly, India, for the Academic Session 2026–27.