Information

Semester: 2020/21/1;

Language: hungarian/english;

Lecturers: Dr. György Hárs, Gábor Dobos

Required attendance: At least 70% of the lectures

Midterm tests: Two midterm tests

Requirement for the signature: At least 40% percent on both midterm tests

Final mark: based on the exam

Consultations: on request

Topics

Electrical and magnetic phenomena:

Static electric filed; Electric charge; Coulomb’s law; Electrical field strength; Gauss’s law; Electrical potential; Capacitors; Energy of the electrical field; Dielectric materials; Electrical current and current density; Electrical conductivity and resistance; Ohm’s law; Joule’s law; DC circuits; Kirchoff’s laws; Measurement of electrical currents and voltages; RC circuit; Magnetic field; Movement of electrical charges in a static magnetic field; Lorentz force; Hall effect; Magnetic field of rod magnets and the Earth; Magnetic data storage; Magnetic fields of currents and moving charges; Biot-Savart law; Ampere’s law; Magnetic field of coils; Connection between changing electric and magnetic fields; Faraday’s law; Self inductance and mutual inductance; RL circuits; Maxwell’s equations; Electromagnetic waves; Generating electromagnetic waves; Propagation of electromagnetic waves; reflection of electromagnetic waves; Spectrum of electromagnetic waves; Lorentz transformation; Special relativity;

Optics:

Geometrical optics: Reflection; Refraction; Mirrors; Lenses;

Physical optics: Interference; Refraction; Polarisation; Wave packet

Applications of optics: Microscopes; Telescopes; Holography; LCD screens, etc…

Quantum mechanics: Photoeffect, de Broglie waves; Atomic theory; Schrödinger’s equation; Uncertanity principle