Department of Physics

10ΥΚΟ03 Physics III

Course webpage:  https://eclass.uoa.gr/courses/PHYS113

Course outline

Course content

• Electric charge. Coulomb’s law. Electric field. Field lines. Electric potential. Potential difference. Isolated conductor. Gauss’s law: Examples and applications. Method of images. Inversion method.
• Capacitance. Capacitors. Electric current. Resistance. Ohm’s law. Magnetic field. Laplace force. Force on a conductor. Applications.
• The electric current as a source of magnetic field. The Biot-Savart law. Ampère’s law. Applications.
• Induction. Faraday’s law. Coefficient of self-induction. RL,RC, RLC circuits. Mechanical oscillator analogues. Alternating current circuits.
• Maxwell’s equations in integral and differential form. Energy of electromagnetic field. Poynting vector.
• Qualitative explanation of the propagation of an electromagnetic field perturbation. Electromagnetic waves.