Università Roma Tre

Coulomb's law and electrostatic field. Electric work and electrostatic potential, Stokes' theorem, electric dipole. Electric field flux and Gauss' law, Maxwell equations for electrostatics. Conductors and capacitors. Dielectrics, electric displacement field and Maxwell equations for electrostatics with dielectrics. Electric current, Ohm's law, power grids. Magnetic field, Gauss' law, magnetic force. Field sources, Ampere's law, Maxwell's equations for magnetostatics in empty space. Magnetic properties of matter, general equations for magnetostatics and the field H. Time dependent electric and magnetic fields, Faraday's law, Ampere-Maxwell's law, Maxwell's equations in vacuum and with matter with charges and currents. Oscillations and alternate currents, RLC circuits. Maxwell's equations and the vector and scalar potentials, Gauge fixing, plane waves, D'Alembert operator and wave equation, pure radiation field. Special relativity, Einstein's relativity principle and Lorentz transformations, Minkowski space, quadrivectors and relativistic invariance. Reflection and refraction of waves. Interference and diffraction, interference of several sources, diffraction from a slit, diffraction grating.

TEXT BOOK

MAZZOLDI P., NIGRO M., VOCI C. "FISICA" VOLUME II [EDISES]

NOTES, PRSENTATIONS AND EXERCISES published on the website of the course
http://webusers.fis.uniroma3.it/~gallop/