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Electrostatics
* Electric charge. Charge conservation. Units.
* Electric forces and Coulomb’s law. Conductors and insulators.
* Electric field and electric potential. Force lines and field lines. Equipotential surfaces.
* Motion of a charged particle in an electric field or potential. Work and energy. Potential energy of a system of charges.
* Capacitance and its unit. Capacitors. Series and parallel connection of capacitors.
* Direct current. Electric resistance. Series and parallel connection of resistors.
* Ohm’s laws. Electromotive force and electric circuits. Kirchoff’s laws.
Magnetostatics
* Magnetic field and magnetic field lines. Electrostatic vs magnetostatic interaction.
* Magnetic forces on charged particles and current-carrying wires. Loop and solenoids. Magnetic moment of a loop. Laplace and Ampere’s laws.
* Magnetic materials: para-, dia- and ferromagnetism. Hysteresis cycle and Curie’s law.
Electromagnetic induction
* Non-stationary electric and magnetic phenomena. Electromagnetic induction Faraday-Neumann-Lenz laws. Inductance.
* Displacement current. Maxwell theory and electromagnetic waves.
Oscillations and waves
* Mechanical oscillations and waves. Harmonic waves. Wave properties: velocity, period, frequency, wavelength.
* Energy, power and intensity of waves. Point sources and spherical waves.
* Sound. Intensity and intensity level: the Decibel scale. Doppler effect.
* Electromagnetic waves. Velocity of an electromagnetic wave. Electric and magnetic field in electromagnetic waves.
* Light is an electromagnetic wave. Polarization.
* Geometric optics. Reflection and refraction of light. Refraction index and Snell’s law.
* Physical optics. Interference and diffraction.

Hugh D. Young - Roger A. Freedman, “Principi di Fisica. Volume 2: Elettromagnetismo e ottica”, Pearson editore. ISBN: 9788891932341