Advanced Physics (2nd term)
2 main parts: Electromagnetism (8c) and Quantum Mechanics (6c) Applications: 6 seminars (2 hours each two week).
Bibliography: Zemanski and Sears: University Physics Halliday and Resnik: Fundamentals Of Physics Teachers’s notes: web site http://spin.utcluj.ro/webphysics/AdvancedPhysics.html Structure
(I) Electromagnetism: Electric charge, electric forces, electric field, electric potential. Electrostatics Dielectrics and capacitance. Electrokinetics (9c) Current, resistance, electromotive force. Magnetic field and magnetic forces. Electromagnetic induction. Magnetism Magnetic materials and superconductors. Electromagnetic waves. Set of 4 eq. (Maxwell): basis of electromagnetism
(II) Quantum mechanics: (intro-basis) Limitations of Classical Physics and historical hypotheses. The wave-particle duality. Heisenberg uncertainty. The wave quantum mechanics. Wave function. Schrodinger equation. (5c) Applications of QM (Qstep, Qwell, Qbox, tunnel effect, Quantum Harmonic Oscillator). QM as basis: From atom to solid state electronics. Introduction in Spintronics. Physics, nanotechnologies @ modern devices. (I) Electromagnetism ELECTRIC CHARGE AND ELECTRIC FIELD
Electromagnetic interactions involve particles that have a property called electric charge, an attribute that is as fundamental as mass. Just as objects with mass are accelerated by gravitational forces, so electrically charged objects are accelerated by electric forces.
1. Electric Charge
The ancient Greeks discovered as early as 600 B.C. that after they rubbed amber with wool, the amber could attract other objects. Today we say that the amber has acquired a net electric charge, or has become charged. The word “electric” is derived from the Greek word elektron, meaning “amber”.
Experiments have shown that there are exactly two kinds of electric charge. Benjamin Franklin called them positive (+) and negative (-).
Two positive charges or two negative charges repel each other. A positive charge and a negative charge attract each other.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) Experiments in electrostatics.
Positively charged objects Negatively charged Positively charged objects and negatively charged objects repel each other repel each other objects attract each other Application: Schematic diagram of the operation of a laser printer
The printer’s light-sensitive imaging drum is given a positive charge. As the drum rotates, a laser beam shines on selected areas of the drum, leaving those areas with a negative charge. Positively charged particles of toner adhere only to the areas of the drum “written” by the laser. When a piece of paper is placed in contact with the drum, the toner particles stick to the paper and form an image. 2. Electric Charge and the Structure of Matter
Question: What happens phenomenologically when you charge a rod by rubbing it (fur, silk) ? To answer this question, we must look more closely at the structure of atoms, the building blocks of ordinary matter.
• The negatively charged electrons are held within the atom by the attractive electric forces exerted on them by the positively charged nucleus. • The protons and neutrons are held within stable atomic nuclei by an attractive interaction, called the strong nuclear force, that overcomes the electric repulsion of the protons. The strong nuclear force has a short range, and its effects do not extend far beyond the nucleus. • The proton and neutron: combinations of other entities called quarks, which have fractionary charges: (±1/3 and ±2/3 times the electron charge).
• Isolated quarks have not been observed, and there are theoretical reasons to believe that it is impossible to observe isolated quarks. The negative charge of the electron has exactly the same magnitude as the positive charge of the proton. In a neutral atom the number of electrons equals the number of protons in the nucleus (Z= atomic number of the element) , and the net electric charge= the algebraic sum of all the charges =0
If one or more electrons are removed from an atom, what remains is called a positive ion. A negative ion is an atom that has gained one or more electrons. This gain or loss of electrons is called ionization. Charging electrostatically an object creating ions (+) or (-)
The magnitude of charge of the electron or proton is a natural unit of charge.
Every observable amount of electric charge is always an integer multiple of this basic unit.
Charge of an object= multiple (N) of elementary charges Q=Ne (charge quantification*) -19 e = 1,602 X 10 C *Millikan 1909, Nobel Price (1923)
Principle of conservation of charge (universal conservation law)
The algebraic sum of all the electric charges in any closed (isolated) system is constant.
Hence the total electric charge on the two bodies together does not change. In any charging process, charge is not created or destroyed; it is merely transferred from one body to another.
If we rub together a plastic rod and a piece of fur, both initially uncharged, the rod acquires a negative charge (since it takes electrons from the fur) and the fur acquires a positive charge of the same magnitude (since it has lost as many electrons as the rod has gained). triboelectric series
Electrons in a material are not all equally bonded. Some substances lose electrons quite easily while others will tend to steal electrons from others. So when we rub the two materials => transfer of electrons from one material to another. 3. Conductors, insulators, induced charges Some materials permit electric charge to move easily from one region of the material to another, while others do not => conductors and insulators.
Insulators could be charged because the charges remained on the object. We cannot charge the conductors if we held them in our hand, because the charges move from the object towards our hand. The facility with which the charges move in a material is described by the relaxation time = the time required for the charges to reach their equilibrium position in an object.
Material Relaxation time (s) Copper 10-12 s Glass 2 s Amber 4000 s Polystyrene 1010s (300 years)
The relaxation time determined by the way the atoms are bounded in the object. In metals, electrons are shared by very many atoms (metal bonds), which allow the electrons to move quite easily. In other substances, in which there are ionic or covalent bonds, the displacement of the electrons is much more difficult. Charging by contact
The ball acquire the same charge (charge redistribution) Charging by Induction
the plastic rod can give another body a charge of opposite sign without losing any of its own charge.
=> Induced charges Electric Forces on Uncharged Objects
The charges within the molecules of an insulating material can shift slightly. As a result, a comb with either sign of charge attracts a neutral insulator. By Newton’s third law the neutral insulator exerts an equal-magnitude attractive force on the comb. 4. Coulomb’s law
. Charles Augustin de Coulomb (1736–1806) studied the interaction forces of charged particles (1784). . He used a torsion balance similar to the one used 13 years later by Cavendish to study the much weaker gravitational interaction.
direction of the force For point charges:
Permitivity of vacuum
The magnitude of the electric force between two point charges is directly proportional to the product of the charges and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. Electric force versus gravitational force
This is always true for interactions of atomic and sub-nuclear particles. 1040 But within objects the size of a person or a planet, the positive and negative charges are nearly equal in magnitude, and the net electric force is usually much smaller than the gravitational force. Superposition of Forces
Coulomb’s law as we have stated it describes only the interaction of two point charges. When two charges exert forces simultaneously on a third charge, the total force acting on that charge is the vector sum of the forces that the two charges would exert individually.
=> Principle of superposition of forces (holds for any collection of charges)
See problems seminary 5. Electric field
When two electrically charged particles in empty space interact, how does each one know the other is there? => Necessity to introduce the concept of electric field.
Any charge Q modifies the properties of the space around it => electric field A charged body creates an electric field in the space around it.
The electric force on a charged body is exerted by the electric field created by other charged bodies.
Unit: [N/C] The charge q0 can be either positive or negative.
q0 (positive +) => and have same direction