B029088 - INTRODUCTION TO CLASSICAL ELECTRODYNAMICS

Italian

Electromagnetism

P. Mazzoldi, M. Nigro e C. Voci, Fisica 2, (EdiSES)

C. Mencuccini, V. Silvestrini, Fisica II, (Zanichelli)

Advanced:

J. D. Jackson Classical Electrodynamics (Wiley 1998)

R. P. Feynman, R. B. Leighton, M. Sands The Feynman Lectures on Physics (Addison Wesley 1977)

Exercises:

M. Nigro, C. Voci, Problemi di fisica generale. Elettromagnetismo e ottica, (Cortina, Padova)

C. Mencuccini, V. Silvestrini, Esercizi di Fisica, Elettromagnetismo e Ottica, (Zanichelli)

S. Longhi, M. Nisoli, R. Osellame, S. Stagira, Problemi di Elettromagnetismo e Ottica, (Soc. Ed. Esculapio, Bologna)

M. Bruno, M. D’Agostino, R. Santoro, Esercizi di Fisica - Elettromagnetismo, (Casa Ed. Ambrosiana)

Training objectives:
Mental attitude suited to deal with a physical problem.
Ability to model the problem with appropriate schematizations.
Ability to identify the important laws of physics for understanding a phenomenon.
Understanding of the links between the different laws of mechanics and electromagnetism.
Ability to translate into mathematical formulas the physical laws of interest.

Knowledge of the scientific high school math program .
Working knowledge of: functions , limits , derivatives, integrals , differentials .
Working knowledge of: partial derivatives , differentials of functions of several variables , differential equations .

Subdivision of the course
75% lectures
25% training exercises

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The exam consists of a written test to ensure the skills acquired by students in solving problems of electromagnetism , an oral test to ensure the student's knowledge of the entire course program.

Electric charge, Coulomb's law, superposition principle, electric field, Gauss theorem, electric potential, electric dipole, multipole expansion, electrostatic energy, properties of conductors, Coulomb's theorem, capacitance, capacitors, dielectrics, electric current, continuity equation, electromotive force, steady currents: dc circuits, principles of Kirchhoff Ohm's law, non-stationary currents: RC circuits, magnetic field, Lorentz force, Biot and Savart law and definition of ampere, Laplace's laws, magnetic dipole, Ampere's equivalence principle, Ampere's law, magnetism in matter, energy of magnetic fields, Faraday's law, self and mutual inductance, RL circuits, displacement current, complete Maxwell equations, introduction to electromagnetic waves.