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University of Toronto Mississauga

PHY241H5

Electromagnetism

Credit0.50
Prerequisite1 requirement, 1 options
Total contact hours24 lecture · 16 practical · 10 tutorial
Evidence1 syllabus · 1 papers
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PHY241H5

What do I need?

These are the weights from the syllabus we have. Yours might be a bit different depending on your term and instructor, so feel free to change anything that doesn't match.

AssessmentGrade %Weight %
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You need 80.0% across the remaining 100% to finish at 80%.

What was the average?

Not reported

No student has contributed a result for this offering yet.

How is it graded?

35% final

From the 2025 syllabus. 4 graded components.

How confident is this?

Unknown

A small number of terms, so read it as a range.

From the calendar

Official source · University of Toronto Mississauga

This course covers the static properties of electric and magnetic fields using the tools of vector calculus. Topics include electric fields, Gauss' law, electric potential, electric dipole, magnetic fields, Biot-Savart Law, Ampère’s Law, Faraday’s Law, culminating on Maxwell’s equations and electromagnetic waves. Solving Laplace’s equation with simple boundary conditions will accompany the discussion of electric potentials.

Exclusions
PHY250H1PHY350H1PHYB21H3PHYC50H3
Contact hours
24 lecture · 16 practical · 10 tutorial
Total scheduled hours for the course, not per week.

Any one of these

MAT135H5 and MAT136H5 and MAT137H5 and MAT139H5 and MAT157H5 and MAT159H5 and MAT137Y5 and MAT232H5 and PHY147H5

Where the marks come from

2025 syllabus
Final Exam · 35%5 Laboratory Reports (biweekly) · 25%5 Assignments (biweekly) · 25%Midterm test · 15%

Extracted from a published 2025 syllabus by deterministic parser. Components that could not be labelled are shown unresolved rather than folded into a neighbouring category.

How well we know this course

2023–2025

Pyko’s archive holds 2 documents for PHY241H5, across 2 years between 2023 and 2025.

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Final exams
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Syllabi

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What we don’t have yet

A course averageNo term has been reported for this offering. Averages come from students who contribute their own results, and nobody has yet.
Instructor-level detailAverages are not split by instructor. At these sample sizes the difference between sections is noise, not signal.

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Course description, prerequisites, exclusions, contact hoursUniversity of Toronto Mississauga2026-07-25public fact
Assessment weightingCourse syllabus, 20252026-07-25summary permitted
2 archived documents, 2023-2025Pyko archive2026-07-25index only

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What this opens up

7 courses list PHY241H5 as a prerequisite

The other 5 have no page yet. Listing a course here means it names PHY241H5 among its prerequisites — often as one of several ways to satisfy the same requirement, so this is what PHY241H5 makes available, not what it alone guarantees.

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