Learning objectives
<div align="justify">The main objective of the course is to teach the fundamental concepts of both Classical and Modern Physics in a way that will give students the opportunity to have a base for further in-depth study if they are interested. </div>
Prerequisites
For an adequate grounding, knowledge of trigonometry is necessary.
Course unit content
<div align="justify"> ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM, OPTICS AND MODERN PHYSICS<br />
Electrostatics- Electric charge separation by rubbing, Atomic structure, Coulomb's law -Electric field- Electric field of a point charge, Electric field of a current-carrying plate, Electric field of two parallel current-carrying plates, Electrical potential energy and electric potential, Potential of a point charge, Dynamics of a charged particle in an electric field -Electric currents- Electric current, Ohm's law, Electrical resistivity, Variation of resistance with temperature, Power dissipated in a circuit, Series and parallel resistors -Capacitance- The flat capacitor, Energy accumulated in a capacitor, Capacitors in series and parallel -Magnetism- Force acting on an electric charge in a magnetic field, Force acting on a current-carrying conductor immersed in a magnetic field, Generation of a magnetic field, Laplace's first fundamental law, Magnetic field at the centre of a current-carrying circular coil, Ampere's theorem, Force between parallel current-carrying conductors, Moment of force (torque) acting on a current-carrying coil immersed in a magnetic field, Permanent magnets and atomic magnets -Electromagnetic induction- Magnetic flow, Faraday's law of electromagnetic induction, Lenz's law, Alternating current generator, Mutual induction, The transformer -Maxwell's equations and electromagnetic waves, Gauss' theorem for electricity and for magnetism, Displacement current, Maxwell's equations, Production and propagation of an electromagnetic wave, Electromagnetic wave propagation velocity, The electromagnetic spectrum -Light and optics- Laws of reflection, The plane mirror and the spherical-concave mirror, Laws of refraction, Thin lenses and thin lens formula, Interference of light, Young's double slit experiment, Michelson interferometer - Restricted relativity, Galilean transformation and invariance of the laws of mechanics, Michelson-Morley experiment, Lorentz contraction, Time dilation, Lorentz transformations, Velocity transformation, Relativistic mass, Mass-energy conservation -Quantum physics- Corpuscular nature of waves, Black body radiation, Photoelectric effect, Photon properties, Wave nature of particles, Representation of a particle by a wave: Schroedinger equation, Heisenberg uncertainty principle -Atomic physics- Bohr's theory of the atom, Bohr's theory and atomic spectra, The quantum model of the hydrogen atom, Quantum numbers, Electron spin, Pauli exclusion principle and periodic table of the elements -Nuclear physics- Structure of the nucleus, Radioactive decay, Alpha, beta, gamma radioactivity, Nuclear fission, Nuclear fusion.</div>
Bibliography
FONDAMENTI DI FISICA - Peter J. Nolan - Ed. Zanichelli<br />
COMPLEMENTI DI FISICA - Peter J. Nolan - ED. Zanichelli<br />
FISICA GENERALE - Jay Orear - ED. Zanichelli
