Fields, Forces and Materials

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• The basics of electrical materials and their behaviour in electromagnetic fields.
• Basic concepts in mechanics of solids, and the relation between stress, strain and deformation.
• The principles governing electrostatics, magnetism and electromagnetism.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Use mathematical skills to analyse real problems (shared with ELEC1300).
• Understand engineering principles and apply them to analyse key engineering processes.

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Identify material applications based on its behaviours under electromagnetic fields.
• Perform a range of electrical and mechanical measurements (shared with ELEC1300).

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Calculate stresses and strains in mechanical systems.
• Analyse simple mechanical and electromagnetic systems.
• Apply underlying principles to solve practical problems.

A-level recap –online self-study Topics: Energy and Momentum, Work, Linear Momentum, Collisions, Rigid body rotation and Angular Momentum, Moments of inertia

Electrostatics:

• Coulomb's Law, Electric field and electric field lines
• Electric Potential
• Dielectrics (linear, Qualitative) and Capacitors
• Electric field boundary conditions
• Electric Force - Movement of charged particles in electric fields
• Current as a flow of charges, Resistance, Ohm’s law

Magnetostatics:

• Magnetic field due to wire and force between wires
• Physics of ferromagnetism. Domains, Magnetic saturation (QUALITATIVE)
• Currents and magnetic fields
• Inductance from a solenoid
• Magnetic field boundary conditions

Electromagnetics: Time varying electric & magnetic fields:

• Electromagnetic Induction, Faraday's Law and Lenz's rule
• Transformers
• Introduction to Electromagnetic waves

Mechanics of Engineering structures:

• Statics, structural and solid body component
• Stress, strain and deformation, elastic and plastic deformation
• Tension, compression and torsion

The content of this module is delivered through lectures, module website, directed reading and tutorials.

Students work on their understanding through a combination of independent study, preparation for timetabled activities, tutorials, along with formative assessments in the form of coursework assignments and problem sheets.

Students work on their practical skills, professional skills and technical understanding in technical and assessed laboratories.

The Laboratory assessment which covers practical Learning Outcomes is assessed in the Laboratory Programme Module which includes in-semester opportunities for redeeming failure. These marks are carried forward to the Supplementary Assessment period or External Repeat.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.