Individual course details
Study programme Physics
Chosen research area (module) General physics
Nature and level of studies Undergraduate studies
Name of the course General physics 3
Professor (lectures) Bratislav Obradović
Professor/associate (examples/practical) Vesna Kovačević
Professor/associate (additional)  
ECTS 9 Status (required/elective)  required
Access requirements Matematics 1
Aims of the course Through theoretical instruction, demonstration experiments and computational exercises, students will be introduced to the basic laws of electrostatics, magnetism and electromagnetic fields.
Learning outcomes Adopted basic concepts, acquired the necessary level of understanding of the basic laws of electromagnetism, adopted of routines in solving specific tasks from electromagnetism.
Contents of the course
Lectures 1. Charging, conductors and insulators, Coulomb’s law
2. Electrostatic field, field lines, principle of superposition,
3. Flux of electrostatic field, Gauss’s low.
4. Work of electrostatic force, Electric potential, connection between electrostatic field and electric potential.
5. Conductors in electrostatic field, electrostatic protection, Van der Graaf generator
6. Capacitance, capacitors, capacitors in circuit.
7. Dielectrics (insulators): dipole, dipole in electrostatic field, polarization of dielectrics, polarization vector P, connection between P and bond charge
8. Gauss’s law for vector P, introduction of electric induction vector D, connection between P and E, polarizability
9. Electric field in dielectric, vectors E, P and D in vacuum and in dielectric, examples
10. Boundary conditions for vectors E and D.
11. Energy of system of charges, charging of capacitors and energy in capacitor, work on polarization of dielectrics, ponderomotive force.
12. Stationary currents, directional motion of charge, drift velocity and current, electrical resistance and specific resistance, Ohm's law for part of a circuit.
13. Current density, specific conductivity, Ohm's law in a differential form, continuity equation.
14. General Ohm's law, electromotive force, distribution of potential along the circuits, Ohm's law for a closed circuit.
15. Kirchhoff's rules, resistant in circuit, Jules-Lenz's law
16. Charging and discharging of capacitor
17. Electrical conductivity in metals, liquids (Faraday electrolysis laws) and gases
18. Magnetic phenomena, permanent magnets, Oersted's and Amper's experiments, Current element Idl, Interaction of the magnetic field B with current element (Amper’s force).
19. Current element as source of magnetic field (Bio-Savar-Laplace’s law), Principle of superposition, magnetic field of infinite straight line conductor, definition of amps.
20. Magnetic flux, Amper's theorem, magnetic field in solenoid and torus
21. Magnetic field in substances, magnetization vector J, flux of vector J
22. Vector magnetic field H, connection between the B, H and J vectors. Magnetic susceptibility κ, boundary conditions for vectors B and H.
23. Diamagnetics, paramagnetics and ferromagnetics.
24. Electromagnetic induction, Faraday's law of electromagnetic induction, Lenz's rule, vortex electric field
25. Inductivity L, emf of induction, transition modes in circuit with coil, on and off regimes, mutual induction
26. Energy of magnetic field, Ponderomotive force
27. Alternating current, generator of alternating currents, thermogenic resistance, capacitor and inductance in the AC circuits.
28. RLC circuit, phase diagram, impedance.
29. Electromagnetic oscillations in an RLC circuit, goodness factor, resonance.
30. Displacement current, fourth Maxwell equation.
Examples/ practical classes Example classes follow the lectures
Recommended books
1 М. Платиша, Eлектромагнетизам и елементи атомске физике, Универзитет у Београду, Београд 1997
2 Purcell E.M., Morin D.J.-Electricity and Magnetism-Cambridge University Press (2013)
3 С. Е. Божин, Електромагнетизам и оптика, Студентски трг, Београд, 1997
4 И.Е.Иродов, Задаци из опште физике, Завод за удџбенике, Подгорица 2000
5  
Number of classes (weekly)
Lectures Examples&practicals   Student project Additional
4 3      
Teaching and learning methods Lectures, demonstration experiments, in-class problem solving 
Assessment (maximal 100)
assesed coursework mark examination mark
coursework 5 written examination 45
practicals   oral examination 55
papers      
presentations