Materials Physics

AY2014/2015 Semester 2

Electric fields. Gauss' law. Electric potential and electric potential energy. Capacitance and dielectrics. Ohm's law. Direct current circuits. Magnetic fields. Sources of magnetic fields. Ampere's law. Gauss' law in magnetism. Ampere-Maxwell law. Faraday's law. Inductance. Electromagnetic waves and spectrum. Relativity. Blackbody radiation and Planck's hypothesis. Photoelectric effect. Compton effect. Atomic spectra. Bohr model of the atom. Quantum numbers. Pauli exclusion principle and Hund's rule. Electronic configurations. Wave particle duality. Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Molecular Orbitals. Ionic bonding. Madelung Constant.