| Area of Mathematics: | Physics (EPh) |
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| Semester: | 4o | ||
| Course ID: | 42504 | ||
| Course Type: | Elective | ||
| Teaching hours per week: | Theory: 3 | Practice: 1 | Laboratory: 0 |
| ECTS : | 5 | ||
| Eclass: | For the course’s material, click here. | ||
| Instructors: | Vasilios Zarikas | ||
Description
- Electromagnetism: Coulomb field, electric field and potential, electric field flow and Gaussian law, charge distributions, conductors in electrostatic equilibrium, capacitance and dielectrics, energy stored in electric field, electric current and resistance, DC circuits and Kirchhoff rules, charging a capacitor. Magnetic field properties and charged particle motion in it. Laplace Force. Force on a Current Carrying Conduct. Magnetic field sources. Biot-Savart Law. Ampere’s law, Gauss’s law in magnetism. Induction and Faraday law. Self inductance. Magnetic field energy. Electrical oscillations. AC circuits. Displacement current, Maxwell equations, electromagnetic waves.
- Optics: Nature of light. Geometric optics: reflection, refraction, Snell’s law, image formation, mirrors, thin lenses and applications. Wave optics: Huygens principle, diffraction and interference, Young’s double-slit experiment, narrow-slit diffraction, optical diffraction barrier, scattering and dispersion. Polarization.
Bibliography
- Serway R.A., Jewett J.W., Physics for Scientists and Engineers, Vol II
- Feynman R., Leighton R., Sands M, The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. II
