Lecturer: Federico Pirzio  

Course name: Physics II
Course code: 502126
Degree course: Ingegneria Industriale
Disciplinary field of science: FIS/03
L'insegnamento costituisce attività di base per: Ingegneria Industriale
University credits: ECTS 6
Course website: http://sites.google.com/site/fisica2ingind

Specific course objectives

The aim of the course is to introduce the basic concept of Electromagnetism.

Course programme

Electrostatics

• Electric Charge: phenomenology.
• Coulomb's Law, Superimposition Principle
• Electric Field
• Electric Flux, Gauss Law
• Electrostatic Potential Energy and Electrostatic Potential
• Maxwell's Equation for the Electrostatics

Electric Field in the Matter

• Behaviour of Conductors in presence of an Electrostatic Field
• Capacitance
• Electric Dipole
• Dielectrics and Polarization (microscopic and macroscopic description)
• boundary conditions for E and D fields

Electric Current

• Drude model of Electrical Conduction
• Ohm's Law, Resistance
• Charge Conservation Principle, Continuity Equation
• Kirchhoff laws
• RC circuits

Magnetostatic

• Phenomenology of Magnetism
• Gauss Law for Magnetic Field
• Charge in motion in a Magnetic Field, Lorentz Force
• Biot-Savart Law
• Ampere's Law

Magnetic Fields in the matter

• Phenomenological consideration
• Dia- Para- and Ferro-Magnetism
• M and H vectors
• Ampere's Law for H field
• Electromagnets and Hysteresis Cycle

Non-Stationary Fields

• Faraday's Law of Induction, non-conservative Fields
• Displacement current and Ampler-Maxwell equation
• Energy of the magnetic field, Inductance
• RL circuits
• Maxwell Equations in non-stationary conditions

Introduction to Electromagnetic Waves

• Electromagnetic wave's equation
• Plane wave solution
• Properties of the pane waves
• Poynting Vector

Course entry requirements

Student's are supposed to be familiar with the basic concepts Mechanics (Newton's Laws, cinematics, Energy and Momentum conservation principles and Thermodynamics), Mathematical Analysis (Module A and B) and Geometry

Course structure and teaching

Lectures (hours/year in lecture theatre): 45
Practical class (hours/year in lecture theatre): 0
Practicals / Workshops (hours/year in lecture theatre): 0

Suggested reading materials

There are many beautiful books treating all the arguments presented in this course, especially in English. Just to mention some of them...

Giancoli, D. C.. Physics for Scientists & Engineers. Vol. 2. Prentice Hall.

Serway and Jewett. Physics for Scientists and Engineers 6E .

Paul Tipler. Physics for Scientists and Engineers: Vol. 2: Electricity and Magnetism, Light .

E. Purcell. Electricity and Magnetism (Berkeley Physics Course, Vol. 2).

Testing and exams

The first part of the exam will test the student's ability in solution of problems (script: 6 problems/2 hours). The oral part of the exam will cover all the arguments presented during the lectures. More information (in italian) are available in the official website of the course https://sites.google.com/site/fisica2ingind/corso