Class Electromagnetism and Waves

The Curricular Unit of Electromagnetism and Waves provides preparation in Electromagnetism and electromagnetic waves.

1. Electric field
1.1. Notion of field
1.2. Electrical force
1.3. The electric field
1.4. Gauss's Law
1.5. Electric fields in conductors and cavities
2. Electric potential and electric energy
2.1. Electrostatic field circulation
2.2. Electric potential
2.3. Electrical energy
3. Electric current
3.1. Current intensity
3.2. Ohm's Law
3.3. Capacitors
3.4 Junction rule
3.5 Loop rule
4. Magnetic field
4.1. Magnetic force: Lorentz's law
4.2. Ampere's Law
4.3. Biot-Savart Law
4.4. Magnetic field flux
5. Magnetic energy and solenoids
5.1. Magnetic energy
5.2. Solenoids
6. Electromagnetic field
6.1. Electromagnetic induction: Faraday's law

6.2. Mutual induction and self-induction
6.3. Displacement current: generalized Ampere's law

6.4. Maxwell's equations
6.5. Electromagnetic field energy
7. Electromagnetic waves
7.1 Electromagnetic field wave equations
7.2 Plane waves
7.3 Wave polarization
7.4 The energy of electromagnetic waves

Notes from theoretical classes and the resolution of exercises are made available to students, in digital.

- Alves, R. G. (1995). Introdução ao Electromagnetismo. Edições Universitárias Lusófonas.
- Loureiro, J. (2018). Exercícios de Eletromagnetismo e Ótica . IST Press.
- Henriques, A. B. e Romão, J. C. (2006). Electromagnetismo . IST Press.
- Feynman, R. P., Leighton, R. B., & Sands, M. L. (1963). The Feynman lectures on
physics. Reading, Mass: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co.