University of Oxford Physics Year 1 - Electromagnetism and Optics (CP2) Complete Lecture Notes & Revision Guide

Comprehensive handwritten lecture notes for the University of Oxford Year 1 Physics course "Electromagnetism and Optics (CP2)". These notes provide a structured and detailed treatment of the material covered throughout the course, including derivations, worked examples, key formulas, diagrams, and explanations designed to support both understanding and revision. Topics covered include: • Coulomb's law, electric fields, electric potential, electrostatic energy, and systems of point charges • Electric dipoles, multipole expansions, Gauss' law, conductors, capacitance, and energy stored in electric fields • Magnetic fields, Ampère's law, Biot-Savart law, magnetic dipoles, and forces between current-carrying conductors • Motion of charged particles in electric and magnetic fields • Electromagnetic induction, Faraday's law, Lenz's law, magnetic flux, self-inductance, mutual inductance, and transformers • Charge conservation, displacement current, and Maxwell's modification of Ampère's law • Maxwell's equations in vacuum and the propagation of electromagnetic waves • Circuit theory including resistance, capacitance, inductance, RC, RL and LCR circuits, transient behaviour, resonance, quality factor, power dissipation, power factor, phasors, and complex impedance • Network analysis techniques including node voltage methods, Thévenin and Norton equivalents, bridge circuits, and AC circuit analysis • Operational amplifiers, amplifier circuits, oscillators, integration and differentiation circuits • Geometrical optics, reflection and refraction, Fermat's principle, Snell's law, total internal reflection, mirrors, lenses, image formation, and magnification • Wave optics including two-slit interference, diffraction gratings, Fraunhofer diffraction, dispersion, and optical resolution The document consists of carefully organised handwritten notes taken during the course and is suitable for lecture review, tutorial preparation, revision, and exam preparation. Ideal for Oxford Physics students and anyone studying introductory university-level electromagnetism, circuit theory, and optics.