Prof. Renzo Leonardi

A.A. 1998/99
 
 

PROGRAMME

VECTOR CALCULUS:
Continuum vector fields specified by differentiable functions.

ELECTROSTATICS:
Coulomb's laws, energy, methods for calculating potentials, conductors, fields in dieletric materials, boundary problems.

CURRENTS AND CONDUCTORS:
Ohm's law, conductivity, conservation of charge.

MAGNETOSTATICS:
Magnetic fields, the approximation of Biot and Savart, vector potential, multipole expansion.

INDUCED ELECTRIC FIELDS:
Faraday's  law, flux changes due to motion, energy in inductors.

MAGNETIC MATERIALS:
Bound currents, dia-, para-, ferro-magnetism, magnetization linear and non  linear materials.

DISPLACEMENT CURRENTS:
Maxwell equations, electrodynamics in matter.

ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION:
Waves in linear media, reflection and transmission at oblique incidence, absorption and dispersion, interference and diffraction.

RELATIVITY AND ELECTROMAGNETISM:
Relativistic formulation of electromagnetism.
 

REFERENCE TEXTS

FEYNMAN ET AL., La fisica di Feynmann
BERKELEY, Physics Course