Electromagnetism
Physics 3230

·        NEWS:  Program for exam

  1. Electrostatics
  2. Magnetostatic
  3. Faraday law
  4. Maxwell’s equation
  5. Conservation laws

                                                    i.     Energy of a capacitor

                                                  ii.     Energy of an inductor

                                                iii.     Oscillations in a circuit of a capacitor and inductor

Lecture notes:

  1. Introduction
  2. Electrostatic
  3. Magnetostatic + Review of static case
  4. Before Maxwell
  5. Maxwell equations
  6. Potential, gauge transformation, gauge invariance, current conservation
  7. Pointing theorem, energy conservation
  8. Maxwell stress tensor
  9. Momentum conservation
  10. Angular momentum
  11. Applications of Pointing vector, stress tensor etc
  12. Charge inside solenoid
  13. Electromagnetic waves 1
  14. Electromagnetic waves 2
  15. Maxwell's equations in matter
  16. Electromagnetic waves in insulators
  17. Electromagnetic waves in metals
  18. Dispersion and absorption
  19. Radiation of electromagnetic waves
  20. Equations of motion
  21. Solution of the equation for retarding potentials

 


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Last updated: 06/12/08