Content (Syllabus outline)
Electrostatics – electric charge, Coulomb's law, electric field, work done by electric force, electric potential, capacitance, dielectrics.
Electric current – microscopic picture of electric current in metals, electrolytes and semiconductors, Ohm's law, specific resistance and it's temperature dependence, Joule's law, measurement of electric potential and current, Wheatstone bridge.
Magnetic field – sources of magnetic field, Lorentz force, Hall effect, Induction, Inductance, magnetic properties of matter.
Optics – reflection and refraction, polarization, interference, diffraction, coherence, lenses and mirrors, optical instruments, resolving power, sources and detectors of light, light spectrum, spectroscopy.
Introduction to statistical physics – kinetic theory of gasses, Maxwell distribution, mean free path, Brownian motion.
Introduction to quantum physics – photoeffect, thermal radiation, atomic spectra, Bohr theory, uncertainty principle, tunnelling, spin, Pauli exclusion principle.
Prerequisites
Requirements for enrolment:
Inscription to adequate academic year.
Terms of Prerequisites:
Completion of colloquium
Oral exam