Course title:
Electrodynamics and Optics
Primary programme:
Fizikus mérnök BSc
ECTS credits:
8
Course type:
compulsory)
Number of lectures per week:
4
Number of practices per week:
2
Number of laboratory exercises per week:
0
Further knowledge transfer methods:
-
Grading:
Examination
Special grading methods:
Solving challenging problems
Semester:
3
Prerequisites:
Mechanics
Responsible lecturer:
Dr. Pal Koppa, university professor, DSc.
Lecturers and instructors:
Course description:
Introductory course to Electromagnetism and Optics, with special emphasis on the basic physical and mathematical methods and terms.
Static electricity and DC currents: Electric Fields, Gauss’s law, Electric Potential, Capacitance, Dielectrics, Conductors, Electric current, Ohm’s law
Magnetism and induction: magnetic field, magnetic forces, Biot Savart law, Ampere’s law, Gauss’s law, Faraday’s law, applications of the electromagnetic induction
Electrodynamics: displacement current, Maxwell’s equations, propagation of electromagnetic waves, energy and momentum of EM waves
Optics: light as electromagnetic wave, geometrical optics, interference, diffraction
Reading materials:
Raymond A. Serway, John W. Jewett: Physics for Scientists and Engineers (Cengage Learning; 10th edition, 2018) ISBN 978-1337553278
Herman Gewirtz, Jonathan S. Wolf: Barron's SAT Subject Test in Physics 9th Edition (Barron’s, 2010) ISBN 978-0-7641-4353-3
List of competences:
Please find the detailed list, as quoted from the Hungarian training and outcome requirements of the Physicist Engineer program, in the Hungarian version of the course description.