Università Roma Tre

1. Electrostatics: introduction to electrical phenomena, charge and Coulomb's law, charge distributions and Gauss's law, electric field.

2. Magnetism: electrical currents, magnetic phenomena, Ampère's and Biot-Savart's law.

3. Electromagnetism: induction, Faraday-Lens law, displacement current. Maxwell's equations, and electromagnetic waves.

4. Wave optics: polarisation, interference, diffraction.

5. Applications: wavefront sensors, Optical Coherence Tomography, light pulses.

Three laboratory sessions are part of this course, each made of two sessions. The subjects of the sessions are part of the syllabus.

parts 1-4: J.S. Walker, Fondamenti di fisica (5A ed., Pearson)

parts 1-4: H.D. Young, R.A. Friedman, Principi di fisica, vol. 2 (Pearson)

part 5: Lecture notes, available at https://app.scienze.uniroma3.it/courses/1/details/2018/didactic_activities/1561