AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The specific training objective is to provide the student with the ability to solve elementary but concrete problems. This implies that the student must know how to distinguish between fundamental concepts (electric and magnetic fields and forces, works, Gauss's laws, Ampere's, Faraday's, ...) and more specific issues (motion of charges in electromagnetic fields, cylindrical condensers, .. .) demanding a thorough understanding of fundamental concepts.

TEACHING METHODS

Lessons, seminars, discussion of case studies

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Thermodynamics

Thermodynamic systems. Temperature: operational definition, thermometric scales. Heat: operational definition, specific heat, latent heat. Heat transmission. Equation of state of perfect gases and real gases. Work in thermodynamic transformations with volume variation. Internal energy. First law of thermodynamics. Specific heats and gas molars. Equipartition Theorem. Second law of thermodynamics. Thermal machines. Refrigeration machines. Entropy and second principle. Absolute thermodynamic temperature.

Electromagnetism

Forces between point charges (Coulomb's law). Electric field. Calculation of the electric field through the sources: superposition principle, Gauss’ law. Electric potential, energy of a charge in an electric field. Energy of a system of charges. Analogies with the gravitational field.

Conductor properties. Capacitors. Energy density of the electric field.

Electric current. Ohm's law. Joule effect. Generators. Circuits with one or more meshes. Kirchhoff's laws. RC circuits.

Definition of magnetic field (Lorentz force). Forces on a current-carrying conductor. Mechanical moment acting on a current conducting loop. Magnetic moment of a spire. Methods for determining the magnetic field produced by currents: Ampère’s law, Biot-Savart’s law.

Flow of the magnetic field through a closed surface concatenated with a closed line. Faraday's law. Self-induction. RL and RLC circuits. Energy density of the magnetic field.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

A set of book will be proposed (the list will appear on aulaweb as soon as the classes start)

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

PAOLO SOLINAS (President)

LUCA GAGLIARDI

NICOLA MAGGIORE (Substitute)

LESSONS

LESSONS START

Lectures will start in accordance with the academic calendar.

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Written test and an oral exam.

ASSESSMENT METHODS

Students will evaluated on:

- the knowledge of the course contents

- communication skills

- problem solving skills

Exam schedule