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Electric, magnetic. and optical properties of materials

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 653-2236/01
Abbreviation EMOVM
Course title Electric, magnetic. and optical properties of materials
Credits 6
Coordinating department Department of Materials Engineering and Recycling
Course coordinator doc. Dr. Mgr. Kamil Postava

Osnova předmětu

1. Electric charge, Coulomb's law, Electric field, operators of vector analysis, Gauss' law of electrostatics
2. Electric potential, electric energy, capacitance, capacitor, electric current, Ohm's law, Kirchoff's laws
3. Magnetic field, magnetic induction, Lorentz force, magnetic field generated by a conductor with current, Biot-Savart's law,
4. Generation of magnetic field by coils and permanent magnets, magnetic moment, Ampere's law of total current, magnetic circuits
5. Magnetic flux, Faraday's law of electromagnetic induction, transformer, coil inductance, magnetic field energy, magnetic properties of materials, alternating currents
6. Maxwell's equations, material relations, wave equation, electromagnetic waves, law of conservation of electromagnetic energy, monochromatic waves, Helmholtz equation
7. Boundary conditions of Maxwell's equations, electromagnetic energy, Poynting vector, photometric and radiometric quantities, clasification of optical material media
8. Solution of Helmholtz equation, plane and spherical electromagnetic waves, wave equation in conducting medium, complex refractive index and complex permittivity, propagation of electromagnetic waves in absorbing media
9. Polychromatic light, optical Fourier transform, coherence theory, optical pulses
10. Polarization of light, elliptically polarized wave, Jones number, polarization components, polarizer, phase plate, Stokes vector and Mueller matrix number
11. Phenomena at the interface of optical media, Fresnel relations and their applications, Goos-Hanchen effect
12. Optics of anisotropic media, birefringence, polarizing prisms, nonlinear optics, applications of nonlinear optical phenomena
13. Description of electromagnetic field by potentials, scalar and vector potentials, antenna radiation, Hertzian dipole, light scattering, Rayleigh scattering

Povinná literatura

M. N. O. Sadiku, Elements of Electromagentics. 7th ed., Oxford university Press 2018.
B.E.A. Saleh, M.C. Teich, Fundamentals of Photonics, 3nd ed., Willey, 2019.
E. Hecht, Optics, 5th ed., Pearson Press, 2016.
D. Halliday, R. Resnick, J. Waker, Fundamentals of Physics, Extended, Wiley, 11th edition, 2018.
R. P. Feynman, R. B. Leighton, M. Sands, The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Basic Books; New Millennium ed. 2011.

Doporučená literatura

L.D. Landau, E.M. Lifshitz, Electrodynamics of Continuous Media, Volume 8 (Course of Theoretical Physics S) 2nd ed., Oxford 1984.
M. Born, E. Wolf, Principles of Optics, 60th aniv. ed., 2019.
F.A. Jenkins, H.E. White, Fundamentals of Optics, McGraw-Hill Education; 4th edition, 2001