The second module is delivered during the second semester and consists of 64 hours of frontal lessons. The teachers of the module holds the lesson through the use of a tablet, introducing the different topics and carrying out calculations and demonstrations, as well as some example problems. At the end of each lesson, the produced file is uploaded to the e-learning platform and made available to students. 20 hours of practice are also provided, held by a trainer in order to better prepare students to take the written exam.
Contents
Module B is unofficially divided into two sub-modules, the first dedicated to teaching classical electrodynamics and held by Prof. Allevi, the second to Einstein's special (or restricted) theory of relativity and held by Prof. Piattella. In particular, the specific contents can be summarized as follows: CLASSICAL ELECTRODYNAMICS - ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION Static Maxwell equations, Faraday-Neumann-Lenz law, applications of Faraday's law, self-induction, RL circuits, electric oscillations, Maxwell equations - ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES Maxwell's equations without sources: plane waves, spherical waves - RADIATION FROM CHARGES IN MOTION Maxwell equations with sources: potentials, delayed potentials, point charge, dipole approximation, spectrum of electromagnetic waves, expansion in multipoles - RADIATION-MATTER INTERACTION Diffusion, chromatic dispersion in a dielectric, absorption of radiation, free electrons. SPECIAL RELATIVITY - FORMULATION OF THE THEORY Minkowski space-time, Lorentz transformations, composition of velocity, relativistic acceleration, paradoxes in RS - RELATIVISTIC MECHANICS Generalization of Newtonian mechanics, massless particles, example: charge in an EM field, example: particle in central potential -VECTOR AND TENSOR ALGEBRA Four-vector, tensors, 1-forms, metric tensor, covariant formulation of mechanics, example: Compton effect, example: energy-momentum tensor - COVARIANT ELECTRODYNAMICS Principle of least action and electromagnetic tensor, covariant formulation of eqz. Maxwell's, transformation of fields, radiation from relativistic charges
Course Language
Italian
More information
For more information or to request an interview, please contact the teachers via e-mail address: - Prof. Alessia Allevi, e-mail: alessia.allevi@uninsubria.it; - Prof. Oliver Fabio Piattella, e-mail: of.piattella@uninsubria.it
