Experimental Physics


course ID

Lecturer

CFU

10

Length

14 Weeks

Semester DD

First


Course details

Electric charge, field and potential; work and energy, conductors, capacity, electrostatics in dielectrics. Electric current, conduction phenomena and Ohm's law, Kirchoff's laws. Lorentz force, the magnetic field in a vacuum, Laplace equations, Ampere's theorem, varying electric and magnetic fields: electromagnetic induction, Faraday-Neumann law, displacement current. Magnetic properties of matter. Motion of charged particles in electric and magnetic fields. Maxwell equations. Wave phenomena: wave propagation, wave equation. Electromagnetic waves, Poynting vector. Properties of light.

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