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