Electromagnetism II

Electromagnetism II

(6th semester course- 5 hours teaching weekly)

Teaching jointly with Professor A.T. Georges

Course Outline:

• Review of Electrostatics, Special techniques of calculation of the electric potential, Laplace’s Equation, Method of image charges, Separation of Variables, Multipole expansion.
• Electrostatic fields in matter.
• Polarization, study of the field of a polarized object, Electric displacement field, linear dielectrics.
• Magnetostatics.
• Divergence and curl of B. Magnetic vector potential.
• Magnetic Fields in matter.
• Magnetization, the field of a magnetized object, the auxiliary field H.
• Electrodynamics.
• Electromotive Force, Faraday’s Law, Maxwell’s equations, potential in electrodynamics, energy and momentum in electrodynamics.
• Electromagnetic Waves.
• Wave equation, electromagnetic waves in conductors and non-conducting media.
• Retarded potentials, multipole expansion, electric and magnetic dipole radiation.
  
  

Bibliography:

• “Introduction to Electrodynamics”, D. J. Griffiths, Crete University Press, 2012.
• “Electromagnetism”, G.L. Pollack and D.R. Stump, Addison Wesley, 2002.
• “Electricity and Magnetism”, E.M. Purcell, Berkeley Physics Course, Vol. 2, 1984.
• “Electromagnetic Fields”, R.K. Wangsness, 2nd Ed., John Wiley, 1986.