CFU
9
Length
14 Weeks
Semester DD
First
Coulomb’s law and electric field. Gauss’s law. Electrostatic potential. Capacitance. Dielectrics. Current and resistance. Electrical circuits. Constant magnetic fields in vacuum and in matter. Ampere’s law. Vector potential. Diamagnetism, paramagnetism and ferromagnetism. Electromagnetic induction. Mutual and self induction. Time varying fields. Maxwell equations and wave equations for fields and potentials. Constancy of the speed of light. Special relativity and relativistic invariance of Maxwell’s equations.
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