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CODE 115340
ACADEMIC YEAR 2025/2026
CREDITS
SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR FIS/06
LANGUAGE Italian
TEACHING LOCATION
  • GENOVA
SEMESTER 2° Semester
MODULES Questo insegnamento è un modulo di:
TEACHING MATERIALS AULAWEB

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

In this module the main concepts and fundamental laws of electromagnetism in vacuum are provided and various applications analysed.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course initially discusses electric charges and fields and their applications as capacitors and resistors. Next, we will address Magnetic fields and finish with the phenomenon of induction.

PREREQUISITES

None.

TEACHING METHODS

Students who have valid certification of physical or learning disabilities on file with the University and who wish to discuss possible accommodations or other circumstances regarding lectures, coursework and exams, should speak both with the instructor and with Professor Federico Scarpa (federico.scarpa@unige.it  ), the Polytechnic School's disability liaison.

 

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

1. Electric charge and Coulomb force.
2. Electric fields and Guass's law
3. Electric potential
4. Capacitors
5. Resistors
6. Circuits
7. The motion of a particle in a magnetic field
8. Mangetic field created by currents
9. Induction

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Halliday, Resnick, Volume 2

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

LESSONS

LESSONS START

https://corsi.unige.it/en/corsi/11949/studenti-orario 

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

The exam consists of a written test and an oral one about the whole program of General Physics (module I and II). The final grade 
will be the average of written and oral exam. 

Students that attend the lectures can take intermediate written tests (in correspondence with the January and February exams 
for Modulo I and June and July exams for Modulo II). Students passing both the partial tests with a grade of at least 15/30 are directly 
admitted to the oral exam.

ASSESSMENT METHODS

The written part of the exam consist of four problems. The first two concern the first module (mechanics), while the second two 
the second one (electromagnetism). The exercises aim to verify the student’s understanding of the topic as well as their 
problem-solving skills. The intermediate exams instead consist of two problems each.

The oral exam consists of simple problems and questions that aim at verifying the student’s knowledge about the various 
topics of the course.