ECTS credits ECTS credits: 4.5
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 74.2 Hours of tutorials: 2.25 Expository Class: 18 Interactive Classroom: 18 Total: 112.45
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Applied Physics
Areas: Electromagnetism
Center Faculty of Physics
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
I. To know how to apply theoretical knowledge to solve practical problems.
II. To get used to handling the bibliography and computer resources, and to clearly expose the results.
III. To understand and handle the basic principles, mathematical method and terminology of classical electrodynamics. Know your limitations.
IV. To interrelate Classical Electrodynamics and the other disciplines of Physics, highlighting the unifying principles.
V. To know the importance of classical electrodynamics in ordinary life and its contribution to technological development.
Regarding Electrodynamics, the student:
-Will demonstrate that you know how to apply theoretical knowledge to solving practical problems.
-Will get used to handling the bibliography and computer resources and to clearly present the results obtained.
-Will understand and handle the basic principles, mathematical method and terminology of classical Electrodynamics as well as know its limitations.
-Will know how to interrelate classical Electrodynamics and the other disciplines of Physics, highlighting the unifying principles.
-Will know the importance of Classical Electrodynamics in everyday life and its contribution to technological development.
I. Propagation of electromagnetic waves
- Theorems of conservation of energy, linear moment and electromagnetic moment.
- Electromagnetic waves. Spherical waves.
- Guided and confined waves.
II. Radiation
- Electromagnetic field of extended source systems. Multipolar development.
- Electromagnetic field from point sources. Radiation of charged particles.
- Electromagnetic potentials.
III. Electromagnetism and Relativity
- Tensorial formulation of Electromagnetism. Transformation of the fields.
- Dynamics of charged particles.
Basic bibliography
- Jackson, J. D., "Classical Electrodynamics", John Wiley, 1998.
- Griffiths, D. J., "Introduction to Electrodynamics", Prentice Hall, 1999.
- Zangwill, A., "Modern Electrodynamics", Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Additional bibliography
- Panofsky, W.K.H and Phillips, M., “Classical Electricity and Magnetism”, Addison-Wesley, 1977.
- Stratton, J.A, “Electromagnetic Theory”, Mc Graww-Hill, 1941.
- Ohanian, H.C,, "Classical Electrodynamics", Allyn and Bacon, 1988.
- Woodhouse, N. M. J., "Special Relativity", Springer, 2003.
- Lim Yung-kuo, "Problems and solutions on Electromagnetism", World Scientific, 2005.
- Lightman, A.P., Problem Book in Relativity and Gravitation", Princeton University Press, 1975.
- Notes of the subject, published in the virtual classroom.
- Additional teaching material prepared by teachers.
CB2. That students know how to apply their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional manner and possess the skills that are usually demonstrated through the elaboration and defense of arguments and the resolution of problems within their area of study.
CB3. That students have the ability to gather and interpret relevant data (normally within their area of study) to make judgments that include a reflection on relevant social, scientific or ethical issues.
CB4. That the students can transmit information, ideas, problems and solutions to a specialized and non-specialized public.
CGI. To possess and understand the most important concepts, methods and results of the different branches of Physics, with historical perspective of their development.
CG2. To have the ability to gather and interpret data, information and relevant results, obtain conclusions and issue reasoned reports on scientific, technological or other issues that require the use of knowledge of Physics.
CG3. To apply both acquired theoretical and practical knowledge as well as the capacity for analysis and abstraction in the definition and posing of problems and in the search for solutions in both academic and professional contexts.
CT1. To acquire capacity for analysis and synthesis.
CT2. To have capacity for organization and planning.
CT5. To develop critical reasoning
CE1. To have a good understanding of the most important physical theories, locating in their logical and mathematical structure their experimental support and the physical phenomenon that can be described through them.
CE2. To be able to clearly handle orders of magnitude and make appropriate estimates in order to develop a clear perception of situations that, although physically different, show some analogy, allowing the use of known solutions to new problems.
CE5. To be able to perform the essentials of a process or situation and establish a work model of it, as well as perform the required approaches in order to reduce the problem to a manageable level Demonstrate critical thinking to build physical models.
CE6. To understand and master the use of the mathematical and numerical methods most commonly used in Physics.
CE8. To be able to manage, search and use bibliography, as well as any source of relevant information and apply it to research projects, technical development of projects.
The expository activity of the subject will consist of blackboard classes of theory and application examples, using in the exhibition the electronic cannon and the blackboard for auxiliary developments and clarifications. Mathematical developments will be largely ignored, referring the student to the bibliography and the notes published in the virtual classroom. The interactive activity will be based on the solution by the students, with the help of the teacher when necessary, of previously proposed problems, seeking an agile development and qualifying the participation of each student.
The election of a representative of the course or each class group is recommended.
There will be a mandatory final exam, with theoretical and applied parts, requiring in it to explain the theoretical concepts that are applied. The lack of this justification may motivate the non-qualification (total or partial) of the exercise. Each part will be qualified separately, requiring the approved a minimum grade of 3 (out of 10) in each one. In the cases in which the grade of the continuous evaluation exceeds the grade of the final exemen, it will make a weighted average with it, being 60% the weight of the exam and 40% that of the continuous evaluation. In other cases, the Professor may take it into account in the final grade, but without the final grade being lower than the exam.
The right to continuous evaluation will be conditioned on regular class attendance, understood as no more than 8 unjustified absences throughout the course.
In cases of fraudulent performance of exercises or tests, the provisions of the “Normativa de avaliación do rendemento académico dos estudantes e de revisión de cualificacións” will apply.
The working time corresponding to the 4.5 credits of the subject is distributed as follows:
-Teaching time: 42 hours.
-Tutories: 3 hours.
-Time of personal work: 67.5 hours.
The understanding of this subject requires mastering the previous contents of Electromagnetism, and also a solid mathematical preparation, especially in field theory and tensor algebra. Poor mathematical training will mean a difficulty, if not the impossibility, to understand the developments of the expository classes.
Alfonso Fondado Fondado
Coordinador/a- Department
- Applied Physics
- Area
- Electromagnetism
- Phone
- 881814017
- a.fondado [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Francisco Javier Castro Paredes
- Department
- Applied Physics
- Area
- Electromagnetism
- Phone
- 881814022
- franciscojavier.castro.paredes [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
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