Guia docente 2023_24 Escola de Enxeñaría de Minas e Enerxía

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
NATURE AND PROPAGATION OF LIGHT	Nature of light. Fermat's Principle. Reflection and refraction of the light. Total reflection: Angle limit.
OPTICAL SYSTEMS	Dioptria: spherical and flat. Lateral magnification.
OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS: LENS	Spherical lenses. Thin lenses. Ray tracing. The eye as an optical instrument.
ELECTROSTATICS. THE ELECTRICAL FIELD IN VACUUM	Electric charge. Conductors and insulators. Coulomb's law. Electric field. Gauss's law. Electric field in a conductor. Capacitors. The electric dipole: Actions of the electric field on a dipole.
ELECTROSTATICS. THE ELECTRICAL FIELD IN DIELECTRICS	Polarisation vector. Polarisation charges.
ELECTROSTATIC ENERGY	Introduction. Potential energy of a group of point charges. Energy of a charged capacitor.
DIRECT CURRENT	Electric current. Current intensity. Current density. Ohm's Law. Joule's Law. Electric generator. Electromotive force. Direct current circuits. Kirchhoff's Law.
MAGNETOSTATICS. THE MAGNETIC FIELD IN VACUUM	Magnetic force on a moving charge. Magnetic induction. Actions of the magnetic field on a linear conductor through which an electric current is flowing. Biot and Savart's Law. Ampère's Law of Circulation. Magnetic flux.
MAGNETOSTATICS. THE MAGNETIC FIELD IN MATERIAL MEDIA	Magnetisation of matter. The magnetic field strength vector. Magnetic susceptibility and permeability. Ferromagnetism.
TIME-DEPENDENT ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS	Faraday's law of induction and Lenz's law. Mutual induction. Self-induction.
ALTERNATING CURRENT	RMS value of a periodic function. RLC series circuit. Reactance. Impedance. Resonance. Power in alternating current circuits. Alternating current circuits. Complex formulation.
ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES	Ampere's Generalized Law. Maxwell's equations. Electromagnetic spectrum.