Academic Year 2017/2018

  • Docente: Andrea Castro
  • Credits: 6
  • SSD: FIS/01
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Chemistry and Materials Chemistry (cod. 8006)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student acquires a fundamental knowledge on the electric and magnetic phenomena. He/she knows how to use the acquired knowledge to solve simple problems related to the creation of electric and magnetic fields, to the conduction and induced currents, to the particle motion in e.m. fields, and to the propagation of e.m. waves according to geometric and wavelike optics.

Course contents

  • Electrostatic field and its properties. Capacitors, electric current, resistors and simple circuits.
  • Magnetostatic field and its properties. Lorentz force.
  • Electric and magnetic properties of matter: polarization and magnetization.
  • Time-dependent electromagnetic phenomena. Electromotive force, inductors and oscillating circuits.
  • Maxwell equations.
  • Electromagnetic waves. The electromagnetic spectrum. Interference, diffraction, polarization.

Readings/Bibliography

  • A. Castro: Fisica 2, http://ilmiolibro.kataweb.it/libro/manuali-e-corsi/194182/fisica-2-2/
  • Halliday-Resnick-Krane: Fisica 2. Casa Ed. Ambrosiana, Milano
  • J.S. Walker: Fondamenti di Fisica. Casa Ed. Zanichelli, Bologna

Teaching methods

Lectures and exercitations in the lecture-hall

Assessment methods

The final examination is for the evaluation of the student level of learning of the arguments presented and of the student understanding of the fundamental principles of electromagnetism (waves included).
The grades are based on the quality of the answers given to several questions posed during a written examination

Teaching tools

Blackboard and overhead projector

Office hours

See the website of Andrea Castro