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UNIWERSITY OF WARSAW

1 Pasteura Str., 02-093 Warsaw, Poland, phone: +48 (0)22 822 02 11




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Subject

Physics A


No / course unit code


Semester

2

Type of course

Lecture


Teaching hours
 per semester    per week

30      2

ECTS credits

3


Lecturer:

Dr hab. Bozena Gadomska
Room: 214R     Phone extn.: 487     email: bogad@chem.uw.edu.pl

Teaching Division:

Physics and Radiochemistry

Educational and
professional goals:

Basic knowledge of physics necessary for the student of Chemistry, skills of simple problems solving and performing the appropriate calculations.

Course description:

Fundamental laws of physics with taking into consideration vector calculus, elements of differential and integral calculus. Electrostatic field of systems of electric charges, electric dipole: permanent and induced. Gauss’s law. Dielectrics, polarization. Conductors, capacitors, electric circuits, Kirchoff’s laws. Magnetic field, due to moving charge, due to wire with current. Magnetic moment. Motion of a charge in magnetic field. Magnetic properties of matter; diamagnetism, paramagnetism, ferromagnetism. Electromagnetic induction law, self-induction, alternating currents. Maxwell’s equations, wave equation, electromagnetic waves. Maxwell’s equations in a material medium. Propagation of electromagnetic waves in a material medium; reflection, refraction, diffraction, interference, coherence, state of a wave polarization. Interaction of an electromagnetic wave with molecules; emission, absorption, index of refraction, Raman scattering, spectrum.

Required background:

Knowledge of physics and mathematics at the level taught in the secondary schools and during I semester. Positively passed exams in Physics A (I sem.).

Form of assessment:


Exam

Remarks:

Positive grade at physics classes is required for admission to the exam.





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