Teacher
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BALBINOT Luca
(syllabus)
I. Electrostatics - Electric charges, the unit of electric charge - The Coulomb force, examples and applications - The electric field, form and characteristics - The potential energy of the electric field - The electric potential: motion of charges in an electrostatic potential - Applications: charge distribution in atoms, ions, molecules and compounds - Capacity, electrical energy storage, battery
II. Electric current and electric circuits - Charge motion and electric current - Production of electric current - Resistance, Ohm's laws ◦ Application: insulating materials, conductors, semiconductors and their structure ◦ Application: electrical conduction in solids, liquids and gases - Kirchhoff's Laws - Series and parallel resistors - Characteristics of a resistor ◦ Application: using resistors in electrical circuits ◦ Application: the Wheatstone bridge - Joule effect ◦ Power, work and energy in electric circuits
III. Capacitance and capacitors - Capacitance and Capacitors ◦ Capacitors and dielectrics ◦ Capacitor operation and function - Types of a capacitor, charging and discharging a capacitor ◦ Application: calculating the capacitance of a capacitor, testing a capacitor - Series and parallel capacitors in electrical circuits - The RC circuit
IV. Electric generators - Methods of electricity generation - DC sources of electricity ◦ Applications: electrostatic cells, thermocouples, photosensitive cells
V. The magnetostatic field - The magnetic field - The force exerted by the magnetic field - Motion of a point charge in a magnetic field - Force exerted on a current-carrying wire - Magnetic field generated by a wire carrying current - Applications: Earth's magnetic field, magnetism in matter
VI. Magnetic induction - Magnetic flux - Induced electromotive force and Faraday's law, induction principle - Lenz's law - Inductance - Magnetic energy
(reference books)
‘FISICA con fisica modera’, D. Giancoli, Casa Editrice Ambrosiana 'Electrical Fundamentals', Aviation Maintenance Technician Certification Series, Module 3 'Physics For Scientists and Engineers'; Paul A. Tipler, Gene Mosca
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