ADVANCED PHYSICS is a natural continuation of PHYSICS subject. Being both of them a first year subject, they ground their bases in the contents of secondary school Mathematics and Physics. ADVANCED PHYSICS also establishes the foundations for more specialized subjects that will be addressed in subsequent years, such as Electrotechnics, Materials Science, Electrical Machines, Electronics, Electrical Engineering or Automatics. This makes Advanced Physics a fundamental subject for engineering studies.

Understanding and command of advanced concepts of electromagnetism, basic concepts of optics and quantum physics, and their application to solve engineering problems.

Advanced Physics treats Electric Fields, Electric Currents, Magnetism, Electromagnetic

Induction, Waves, Geometrical Optics and principles of Quantum Physics.

Students facing a certain physical situation are expected to identify the physical phenomenon (among different branches of Physics) together with the most relevant magnitudes, to decide which are the physical laws that relate the magnitudes involved in the problem and to use the mathematical tools needed to find the unknowns appearing to the physical situation.

Chapter 1: Electrostatics

Chapter 2: Electric fields in the presence of matter

Chapter 3: Electric Currents

Chapter 4: Magnetism

Chapter 5: Electromagnetic Induction

Chapter 6: Waves

Chapter 7: Geometrical Optics

Chapter 8: Introduction to Quantum Physics

Lectures: covering theoretical aspects and problems solving. Some seminar-type experiments will be conducted, just in the clasroom for direct observation of physical phenomena.

• Final Assessment System
• Tools and qualification percentages:
  • Written test to be taken (%): 90
  • Short test (written and individual): (%): 10

Test: the students will perform a short test in the middle of the term, during one of the classes. The test grade contributes to the final grade with a 10%.

Official Regular Exam (the exam will be the same for all groups), which will consist of several questions, theoretical as well as problems. The resulting mark will contribute 90% to the final grade.

Students who do not sit for the exam will be considered as voluntary waivers.

Official Extraordinary Exam (the exam will be the same for all groups) will consist of several questions, theoretical as well as problems. The resulting mark will contribute 100% to the final grade. The result of the test will not be taken into account.

Students who do not sit for the exam will be considered as voluntary waivers.

The Applied Physics Department publishes the book "Advanced Physics", including theoretical contents and problem sets. The book can be purchased at the Editorial Service of the Engineering Faculty at cost price.

Basic bibliography

Fisika Zientzialari eta Ingeniarientzat; P. Fishbane, EHU Argitalpen zerbitzua, 2008

Física Universitaria, Young, Freedman, Ed. Pearson 2018

Física, Tipler y Mosca; Vols 1 y 2, 5ª Edición, Reverté 2005

Física, Alonso y Finn, Addison-Wesley Iberoamericana, 1995

Física conceptual, P.G. Hewitt, Prentice Hall Mexico, 2004

In-depth bibliography

Campos Electromagnéticos. R.K. Wangsness Ed. Limusa (Méjico) 2006
E. Hecht, A. Zajac. Óptica. Ed. Addison Wesley, 2000.
Física Cuántica Eisberg, R. Y Resnick, R.: Ed. LIMUSA. 2005
Lectures on Physics, Feynman, 2 eta 3 bolumenak, Leighton eta Sands, Addison.-Wesley Iberoamericana, 1989

Journals

Revista Española de Física
European Journal of Physics
American Journal of Physics

Web addresses

EHU-ko Fisika Sailak garatutako materiala:
http://www.sc.ehu.es/sbweb/fisika/default.htm
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http://www.fearofphysics.com/index1.html
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