Academic year: 2026-27
Course: Foundation Course Science/ Humanities/ Social Science
Credits: 3
Period: second semester
Number of hours: 24
Teacher(s): Giorgio Carelli ( giorgio.carelli@unipi.it)
Language of instruction: English
Syllabus:
Electrostatics,
Electrical currents, Electric charge. Coulomb’s law and the electrical
field.
Electric flux, Gauss theorem (for example: point charge, charged sphere, charged plane).
Motion of point charges in a constant electrical field. Electrical conductors and electrical induction.
Electrostatic potential, equipotential surfaces. Potential energy of a uniform electric field.
Charge distribution, field and potential for conductor in electrostatic equilibrium.
Electrical capacitance, capacitors.
Electrical current, charge motion,
Ohm laws. Electric resistance, resistors.
Electromotive force, internal resistance. Joule effect.