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Experimental Physics III: Electricity and magnetism.
Prof. Gintautas Tamulaitis, Bachelor studies, 3 semester, autumn, 6 ECTS credits.
Course unit content: Electric field and its characteriazation. Capacitance. Storing energy
in an electric field. Dielectrics, their macroscopic and microscopic description, varieties
and applications. Direct current in macroscopic and microscopic description. Electric
current in metals and semiconductors. Basics and applications of superconductivity.
Electric discharges. Atmosphere electricity. Electric current in liquids. Batteries,
application of electrolysis in metallurgy. Electromotive force, circuits of direct current.
The concept of magnetic field. Motion of charge carriers under influence of electric and
magnetic field in nature and engineering. Electromagnetic induction. Electric generator,
tranformers, history of electrification. Inductance. Magnetic field in materils.
Electromagnetic oscillations. Maxwell’s equations. Electromagnetic oscillations and
waves. Electromagnetic waves in action.
Reading list:
1. D. Halliday, R. Resnick, Physics. Part 2. Extended version. John Willey & Sons.
2. D. C. Giancoli. Physics for Scientists & Engineers. Third Edition. Prentice Hall,
2000.
3. E. M. Purcell, Electricity and Magnetism. Berkeley Physics Course, Vol. 2,
Mcgraw-Hill Book Company.
4.
Assessment: Problem solving skills (33%), midexam in write (33%), oral examination
(34%).
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