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Physics Ι
Teaching Staff: To be announced
Course Code: ΤΠ-2004
Course Type: Compulsory
Course Level: Undergraduate
Course Language: Greek
Semester: 2nd
ECTS: 5
Teaching Units: 4
Teaching Hours: 4
Short Description:
- Electrostatics: Coulomb’s law, Electric Field, Gauss’s law, Electric Potential Energy, Electric Potential and equipotential surfaces, Potential gradient.
- Conductors and Dielectrics. Capacitors and capacitance, Connection networks of capacitors-equivalent capacitance (in Series and Parallel), Energy storage in Capacitors and Electric-field energy.
- Motion of charges, current, drift velocity and current density, Resistivity and resistance, Resistors, connection networks of resistors equivalent resistance (in Series and Parallel), Electromotive force and direct current circuits, Kirchhoff’s rules, Thevenin-Norton’s Theorems, R-C circuits (R-C filter), Differentiators and Integrators.
- Stationary electromagnetism: magnetic fields and flux density, Lorentz’s force, Biot-Savart’s law, Magnetic Field and Magnetic Forces, Ampere's law for B-field and magnetic materials, Principles of electric motors.
- Electromagnetic induction: Faraday's and Lenz' laws, Inductance, L-R circuits, Maxwell’s equations.
- Elements of Atomic Physics: Bohr’s atomic model-Sommerfeld’s extension of atomic structure, Electronic configuration and Quantum numbers, Shapes of s,p,d,f orbitals, Pauli’s exclusion principle, Emission and absorption spectra, line and band spectra; Hydrogen spectrum – Lyman, Balmer, Paschen, Brackett and Pfund series. de Broglie’s theory, Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle – wave nature of electron – Schrodinger wave equation.
- Crystal structures, growth of semiconductor materials, electronic states of semiconductors, Direct and indirect bandgap semiconductors, density of states function, effective mass, Statistics of donors and acceptors, Drift current, I-V (current-voltage) characteristics, electrical mobility, carrier scattering, Hall effect.
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