| Lectures and exercises |
hours |
| Topics |
Specific contents |
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| Magnetostatics |
Magnets. Earth's magnetic field. Oersted's experiment. Magnetic field generated by a current. 2nd Laplace's formula. Lorentz's force. Flux of B. Cyclotron, mass spectrometer, Hall effect. Biot-Savart's law. Force between two parallel currents. 1st Laplace's formula. Ampere's law in integral and differential form. Magnetic moment of a loop. Ampere's equivalence theorem. The electric current as the sole source of B. |
8
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| Magnetostatics in matter |
Magnetization and Ampere's model. Orbital and intrinsic magnetic moments of atomic electrons.
Diamagnetism, paramagnetism, ferromagnetism. Continuity and discontinuity of electric e magnetic fields at the interface between two media. |
4
|
| Time dependent fields |
Motion in a magnetic field and electromagnetic induction. Faraday's law. Lenz's law. Applications of Faraday's law. Self and mutual induction. RL circuit, energy and energy density of a magnetic field. Free and forced oscillations in a RLC circuit. |
14
|
| Electromagnetic waves |
Ampere-Maxwell's law, induced magnetic fields and displacement current. Maxwell equations in the integral and differential forms. Electromagnetic waves. Derivation of the wave equation from Maxwell's equations. Plane waves. Spherical waves. Energy transportation and Poynting's vector. Radiation produced by an accelerated charge. |
8
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| Wave phenomena, physical optics |
Huygens' principle. Reflection and refraction of waves. Dispersion. Polarization of light, Fresnel's coefficients, Malus' law. Interference. Diffraction. Resolution of a lenses. |
12
|
| Geometrical optics |
Object, optical instrument, image. Focus. Mirrors and diopters. Principle of reversibility of light rays. Special rays. Signs convention. Enlargement. Thin lenses.
|
6
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| Special relativity |
Clock synchronization. Relativity of simultaneity. Lorentz' transformations. Time dilation and length contraction. Proper quantities. Velocity transformation. Relativistic kinetic energy and momentum. Relativistic energy and mass and their conservation. Relation between force and acceleration. Transformations of the E and B fields.
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6
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| Total hours for lectures and exercises |
58 |
| for exercises only |
20 |
|
Further educational activities
|
hours
|
| Labs |
13 |
| Tutorials / Seminars |
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| Workshops |
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| Guided tours |
|
| |
|
| Total hours for further educational activities |
13 |
| Total hours |
71
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