Electromagnetism

The course (80 hours of lectures and 50 hours of classroom exercises) provides the student with an introduction to classical electromagnetism, starting from phenomenology and achieving an interpretation of the phenomena within a classical field theory, by introducing Maxwell equations.

At the end of the course the student
1.Will have learnt the fundamental laws of electrostatics and the formulation of the associated general problem in empty space and conducting media via the Poisson and Laplace equations;
2.Will have learnt how to formulate electrostatics in the presence of dielectric media;
3.Will have learnt the fundamental laws of magnetostatics;
4.Will have studied the main phenomena associated with electromagnetic induction and understood how to interpret them using the Faraday-Neumann-Lenz law;
5.Will have understood how to formulate electromagnetism through the Maxwell equations, by including the displacement current;
6.Will have derived the electromagnetic wave equation and understood the main properties of wave propagation;
7.Will have acquired the knowledge of the main properties of electromagnetic