Electrodynamics

Course Information

All details regarding the location, schedule, and ECTS credits are available on KSL.

Lecture Description

The lecture covers the following topics:

• Fundamental concepts of charge and current density
• Continuity equation
• Maxwell’s equations
• Electrostatics
• Magnetostatics
• Multipole expansion
• Potentials and gauge transformations
• Energy of the electromagnetic field
• Electromagnetic waves in vacuum
• Green’s functions
• Retarded fields
• General solutions of Maxwell’s equations
• Radiation
• Relativistic formulation of electrodynamics

Literature

• Lecture notes
• David J. Griffiths, Introduction to Electrodynamics