Electricity and Magnetism

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Department of Physics

Synopsis:

Electric charge, Coulomb's law, electrostatic field, Gauss' law. Electric dipole, polarization. Conductors anddielectrics. Electric current and circuits, conductivity. Basics of the relativity theory. Electrodynamic forces,magnetic field. Magnetic dipole, magnetics. Electromagnetic induction, ac currents. Electromagnetic waves,Maxwell equations

Requirements:

Syllabus of lectures:

1. Electrostatics, Coulomb law, energy

2. Gauss law, potential, partial derivative

3. Gradient, divergency, rotation

4. Multipoles expansion, dipole, polarization

5. Conductors and dielectrics

6. Stacionary electric field, conductivity

7. Basic of the relativity theory. Einsteins princip, Lorentz transformation

8. Relativistic mass and momentum, equation of motion

9. Fields of moving charges

10. Biot Savart ́s law, vector potential

11. Magnetic dipole, magnetization

12. Hall ́s effect, electromagnetic induction

13. AC currents, RLC circuits

14. Maxwell equations, electromagnetic waves

Syllabus of tutorials:

Solving problems to illustrate the theory from the lecture

Study Objective:

Knowledge:

fundamentals of elektricity and magnetism

Skills:

solving problems elektricity and magnetism

Study materials:

Key references:

[1] D. C. Pandey: Electricity & Magnetism, Arihant Publications, 2016

[2] E. M. Purcell and D. J. Morin: Electricity and Magnetism, Cambridge University Press; 3 edition, 2013

[3] D. J. Griffiths: Introduction to Electrodynamics, Cambridge University Press; 4 edition, 2017

Recommended references:

[4] P. A. Tipler: Physics I, II. Worth Publisher, 1976.

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