Classical Electrodynamics

Note: This course is delievered in English

Instructor: Ming-Che Chang

Textbook: Modern Electrodynamics, by A. Zangwill

References:

1. Introduction to Electrodynamics, by D.J. Griffiths

2. Classical electrodynamics, by J.D. Jackson

Required background: vector calculus, partial differential equation

Teaching Assistant: Hong-Nhung Bui

First semester

Grading: homework (40%); mid-term exam (30%), final exam (30%)

1. Mathematical preliminaries

2. The Maxwell equations

3. Electrostatics

4. Electric multipoles

5. Conducting matter

6. Dielectric matter

7. Laplace's Equation

8. Poisson's Equation

9. Steady current

10. Magnetostatics

11. Magnetic multipoles

12. Magnetic force and energy

13. Magnetic matter

14. Dynamic and quasistatic fields

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Second semester

Grading: homework (40%); mid-term exam (30%), term report (30%)

15. General electromagnetic fields

16. Waves in vacuum

17. Waves in simple matter

18. Waves in dispersive matter

19. Guided and confined waves

20. Retardation and radiation

21. Scattering and diffraction

22. Special relativity

23. Fields from moving charges

24. Lagrangian and Hamiltonian

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