Electrostatics: Electric field and potential, experimental evidence of electrostatics laws, dipole fields, electrical capacity, electrostatic energy. Electric current and current density vector. Law of charge conservation. Electrical resistance and RC circuits. Magnetostatics: Experimental data and magnetostatics laws. Lorentz force, potential vector, magnetic dipole.
Electromagnetic induction. Maxwell's equations, retarded potentials, conservation laws.
Acquire knowledge about electrostatics and magnetostatics.
Prerequisites
Courses required: none
Courses recommended: Mathematics I, Physics Laboratory
Teaching Methods
Total number of hours for Lectures (hours): 48
Total number of hours for Laboratory-field practice : 12
Type of Assessment
Written and oral exam.
Course program
1) Introduction
Physical elements of electrostatics. Fundamentals of mathematics
2) Time-independent physical situations
Electrostatics:
Fields and potentials. Gauss's law and experimental verification. Electric dipole. Capacity. Electrostatic energy and its spatial location. Electric charges motion. Description and related phenomena. Conservation law of electric charge. Conduction in metals. RC circuits.
Magnetostatics:
Experimental data and their interpretation. Lorentz force and its characteristics. Ampere's law and differential magnetostatics laws. Hall effect. Potential vector. Magnetic dipole
3) Time-dependent physical situations
Electromagnetic induction:
Phenomenology. Electromotive force and induction laws. Practical applications. Coefficients of mutual and self induction. RL and RLC circuits. Energy of a system of currents.
Propagation of fields:
Maxwell's equations and prediction of new phenomena. Experimental verification. Solutions of Maxwell's equations using plane waves and spherical waves. Retarded potentials. Poynting’s vector, conservation laws and examples.