Учебник создан на базе курса лекций по общей физике, на протяжении многих лет читаемого автором на младших курсах Института прикладной математики и механики (ИПММ) Санкт-Петербургского политехнического университета Петра Великого. Рекомендовано федеральным учебно-методическим объединением в системе высшего образования по укрупненным группам специальностей и направлений подготовки 16.00.00 «Физико-технические науки и технологии» в качестве учебного пособия для реализации основных профессиональных образовательных программ высшего образования по направлениям подготовки бакалавров укрупненной группы специальностей и направлений подготовки 16.00.00 «Физико-технические науки и технологии». Пособие может быть использовано также при подготовке бакалавров по различным техническим и физическим специальностям.

The textbook is based on a course of lectures on general physics, for many years read by the author at the junior courses of the Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics of Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University. Recommended by the Federal educational and methodical Association in the system of higher education for enlarged groups of specialties and areas of training 16.00.00 “Physical and Technical Sciences and Technologies” as a textbook for the implementation of the main professional educational programs of higher education in the areas of bachelor’s training in the enlarged group of specialties and areas of training 16.00.00 “Physical and Technical Sciences and Technologies”. The textbook can also be used for training bachelors in various technical and physical specialties.

• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• ELECTROMAGNETISM
• Chapter 1. Electrostatics.
• §1. The electrostatic field in vacuum. Basic facts.
• §2. The electrostatic field. Field strength.
• §3.Potential.
• §4. Electric energy of the charge system.
• §5. The relationship between electric strength and potential.
• §6. The dipole.
• §7. The field of a system of charges at large distances from it.
• Chapter 2. Elements of vector analysis.
• §1. The derivative in the direction. The gradient.
• §2. The vector flux.
• §3. Divergence.
• §4. The Ostrogradsky-Gauss theorem.
• §5. Circulation and rotor.
• §6. Stokes theorem.
• §7. The nabla operator
• §8. Circulation and rotor of the electrostatic field.
• §9. Gauss theorem and the divergence of the electrostatic field.
• §10. Calculation of fields using the Gauss theorem.
• Chapter 3. The electric field in dielectrics.
• §1. Polar and nonpolar molecules.
• §2. Polarization of a dielectric.
• §3. The field inside the dielectric.
• §4. Volume and surface bound charges
• §5. The electric displacement vector.
• §6. The field inside a flat dielectric plate.
• §7. Conditions at the boundary of two dielectrics.
• §8. Ferroelectrics.
• Chapter 4. Conductors in an electric field
• §1. Electric field inside conductors.
• §2. Field strength near the surface of a conductor.
• §3. The potential of a solitary conducting ball.
• §4. The method of mirror images.
• §5. The method of mirror images in the case of a ball.
• §6. Electrical capacity of a solitary conductor.
• §7. Capacitors.
• §8. The energy of the electric field.
• Chapter 5. Direct electric current.
• §1. Electric current.
• §2. The continuity equation.
• §3. Electromotive force (EMF).
• §4. Ohm's Law. Resistance.
• §5. Branched chains. The Kirchhoff rules.
• §6. The mesh current method.
• §7. The power of electric current. The Joule-Lenz law.
• §8. Terminals voltage.
• Chapter 6. Magnetic field in vacuum.
• §1. Magnetic field. Basic facts.
• §2. Magnetic induction vector.
• §3. The Biot-Savart-Laplace law.
• §4. The field of an infinite rectilinear current.
• §5. Magnetic induction lines and their properties.
• §6. The principle of superposition.
• §7. The field of a moving charge.
• §8. Ampere's law.
• §9. The Lorentz force.
• §10. A loop with a current in a magnetic field.
• §11. The energy of a loop with a current in a magnetic field.
• §12. The magnetic field of a circular loop with a current.
• §13. Examples of the analysis of magnetic interactions.
• §14. The work performed when moving a current in a magnetic field.
• §15. Divergence and rotor of magnetic field.
• §16. The field inside the solenoid.
• Chapter 7. Magnetic field in matter.
• §1. Magnetization of a magnet.
• §2. Magnetic field strength.
• §3. The theorem on the circulation of the magnetic field strength (Ampère's integral law).
• §4. Calculation of the field in a magnet.
• §5. Conditions at the boundary of two magnets.
• §6. Types of magnets.
• Chapter 8. Electromagnetic induction.
• §1. The phenomenon of electromagnetic induction.
• §2. Induced EMF.
• §3. Examples of the analysis of the phenomenon of electromagnetic induction.
• §4. Self-induction.
• §5. Current when the circuit is closed and opened.
• §6. Mutual induction.
• §7. The energy of the magnetic field.
• Chapter 9. Maxwell's equations.
• §1. Vortex electric field.
• §2. Displacement current.
• §3. Maxwell's equations.
• ELECTRICAL OSCILLATIONS.
• §1. Free undamped oscillations in the oscillatory circuit.
• §2. Free damped oscillations.
• §3. Forced electrical oscillations. Resonance.
• ELASTIC WAVES.
• §1. Propagation of waves in an elastic medium.
• §2. Equations of plane and spherical waves.
• §3. The wave equation.
• §4. Standing waves.
• §5. String oscillation.
• §6. Sound.
• §7. Doppler effect.
• ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES.
• §1. Wave equation for electromagnetic waves.
• §2. Plane electromagnetic wave.
• §3. Experimental study of electromagnetic waves.
• §4. Energy and momentum of electromagnetic waves.
• §5. Radiation of electromagnetic waves by a moving charge.