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Physics II - Electricity, Magnetism, Electromagnetic Filed

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 480-8120/01
Abbreviation FYII
Course title Physics II - Electricity, Magnetism, Electromagnetic Filed
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Physics
Course coordinator prof. RNDr. Petr Hlubina, CSc.

Subject syllabus

Content focus:
- Introduction: Importance.
- Electrostatics: electric charge, Coulomb's law, intensity and potential of the field, Gauss theorem, Poisson's and Laplace equation; wire in the electrostatic field, capacity of a conductor and capacitors, the energy of the field; dielectrics, polarization vector and the induction, the field on the boundary of two dielectrics.
- Transmission of electric charge: the electric current, current density, continuity equation, Ohm's law in differential and integral form; electromotoric voltage, Kirchhoff's laws, voltage and current sources, work and power of electric current, Joule heat.
- Stationary magnetic field: vector of magnetic induction, Biot-Savart law and its applications, Ampere's law and its applications, the magnetic force field, magnetic moment, a vector field intensity, Gauss theorem for magnetic field, magnetic polarization, the field at the interface of two magnetics, magnetic circuits, Hopkinson's law.
- Electromagnetic induction: magnetic flux, Faraday's law, custom and mutual inductance, energy of the magnetic field, oscillating CL and CRL circuits.
- Alternating current: Ohm's law in complex form, AC circuits, RLC circuit; transformer.
- Maxwell's equations: integral and differential form, and their basic consequences.
- Electromagnetic potentials: scalar and vector potential, basic equations and solutions.

E-learning

Materials are available at https://lms.vsb.cz/?lang=en

Literature

Sedlák, B., Štoll, I.: Electricity a magnetism (In Czech). Academia, Karolinum, Prague 1993;
Halliday, D., Resnick, R., Walker, J.: Physics 3. Electricity a magnetism (In Czech). Prague: Vutium and Prometheus, 2001.

Advised literature

Haňka, Z.: Theory of electromagnetic field (In Czech). TKI, SNTL, Prague, 1975;
Krupka, F., Kalivoda, L.: Physics (In Czech). SNTL, Prague, 1989;
Krempaský, J.: Physics (In Slovak). SNTL-ALFA, Prague-Bratislava 1988
Sadiku, M. N. O.: Elements of electromagnetics, Oxford University Press, New York 1995.