| Individual course details | ||||||||||
| Study programme | Meteorology | |||||||||
| Chosen research area (module) | ||||||||||
| Nature and level of studies | basic academic studies | |||||||||
| Name of the course | Electromagnetism and basics of atomic physics | |||||||||
| Professor (lectures) | assistant professor Dragan Redžić | |||||||||
| Professor/associate (examples/practical) | Dragan Redžić | |||||||||
| Professor/associate (additional) | ||||||||||
| ECTS | 9 | Status (required/elective) | required | |||||||
| Access requirements | Mathematics 1B, mathematics 2B, Mechanics, Thermodynamics | |||||||||
| Aims of the course | to introduce students to basic concepts and methods of classical electromagnetism, from electrostatics to electromagnetic waves, and to rudimentary concepts of atomic physics. The course materials represent one of the fundamentals for understanding atmospheric phenomena on the basis of physical principles. | |||||||||
| Learning outcomes | the acquiring of basic concepts and results of electromagnetism and atomic physics and of capability for applying them to understanding and describing of atmospheric phenomena. | |||||||||
| Contents of the course | ||||||||||
| Lectures | 1. Coulomb's law, the electrostatic field in vacuum, Gauss's law. 2. The electrostatic potential, electric dipole. Multipole expansion. Poisson's equation and Laplace's equation. 3. Conductors in the electrostatic field. Uniqueness theorem, Faraday's cage, the method of images. The capacitance of an isolated conductor, capacitor and system of capacitors. 4. Energy conservation in the electrostatic field. Electrostatic field energy in vacuum. 5. Dielectrics in the electrostatic field, the Clausius-Mossotti relation, Gauss's law in the presence of dielectrics. Electrostatic field energy in dielectric. 6. Electric current. Charge conservation, basic laws of stationary electric currents. Passive components in DC circuits. 7. Gas ionization, ionic concentration, Electric discharge in gas, non-self-sustained and self-sustained. 8. Magnetic field, the Lorentz force, the Biot-Savart law. 8. Ampère's law, Ampère's force. 9. Potential energy of a current loop in constant magnetic field. The vector potential of the magnetostatic field, multipole expansion, magnetic dipole. 10. Faraday's law of electromagnetic induction, the vortex electric field. The Ampère-Maxwell law. Microscopic Maxwell's equations. 11. The self-inductance and mutual inductance. the magnetostatic field energy of a solenoid. Magnetostatic field in matter, Ampère's law in magnetited materials. 12. Macroscopic Maxwell's equations. Quasi-stationary currents, non-forced and forced electric oscillations. 13. Electromagnetic waves in a non-conducting and conducting HILS medium. Electromagnetic field energy. The Poynting vector, electromagnetic field momentum. 14. Radiation of heated body. Models of the atom. Bohr's postulates of the semi-quantum model of the atom. 15. Atomic quantum numbers. Lasers. | |||||||||
| Examples/ practical classes | Elaboration of the concepts studied in lectures through examples and the following practical execises. 1. Compensation method. 2. Transient regimes in RC circuits. 3. Resistive thermometer. 4. Ohm's law for AC circuits. 5. Transformer. 6. AC bridges. 7. Refractive index measurement by a prism method. 8. Diffraction grating. 9. Photometry. 10. Pyrometry. | |||||||||
| Recommended books | ||||||||||
| 1 | D M Filipovic, "Electromagnetism and atomistics. Electrostatics. Part 1," Fizicki fakultet 2006 (in Serbian) | |||||||||
| 2 | M Platisa, "Electromagnetism and elements of atomic physics," Univerzitet u Beogradu 1997 (in Serbian) | |||||||||
| 3 | Purcell&Morin," Electricity and Magnetism." 3rd edn CUP 2013 | |||||||||
| 4 | P Lorrain et al, "Magneto-fluid dynamics: fundamentals and case studies of natural phenomena," Springer 2006 | |||||||||
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| Lectures | Examples&practicals | Student project | Additional | |||||||
| 4 | 2 + 3 | |||||||||
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| Assessment (maximal 100) | ||||||||||
| assesed coursework | mark | examination | mark | |||||||
| coursework | 5 | written examination | 25 | |||||||
| practicals | 30 | oral examination | 40 | |||||||
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