Guia docente 2023_24 Facultade de Química

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
1.-BASIC THEORY OF FIELDS.	- Vector functions - Scalar and vector fields - Line integral - Conservative fields. Potential - Central fields - Flux, divergence and curl of a vector field
2. ELECTROSTATICS	- Electric charge. Conductors and dielectrics - Coulomb’s Law - Superposition principle. Electric Potential - Electric field - Potential and field created by an electric dipole. Effect of electric field on a dipole - Gauss´ theorem
3. ELECTRIC FIELDS IN CONDUCTORS AND DIELECTRICS.	- Effect of electric field on a conductor - Charge distributions on electrostatic conductors - Capacitors and capacitance - Effect of a dielectric between the plates of a capacitor - Effect of electric field on a dielectric
4. DIRECT CURRENT	- Direct Current. Current Density - Ohm’s Law. Conductivity - Joule´s Law - Electromotive force - Kirchoff´s Law
5. MAGNETIC FIELD	- Phenomenoly. Causes of magnetism - Biot and Savart´s Law. Examples - Ampère's theoreme - Charged particles in a static magnetic field - Introduction to magnetism in matter
6. ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION	- Magnetic Flux. Ampère's Law - Phenomenology - Faraday´s law. Lenz´s law - Mutual inductance and self-inductance
7. ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES	- Maxwell’s Equations. Ampère-Maxwell's law - Plane Electromagnetic Waves - Energy of the electromagnetic waves - Electromagnetic spectrum