Basic Electromagnetism

Part 1 Electrostatics: Coulomb's law; Gauss's law; electric potential; electrostatic energy; dielectrics. Part 2 Electric potential and fields: Poisson's and Laplace's equations; solutions of Laplace's equation; electrical images; electron optics. Part 3 Magnetostatics: electric current; Lorentz force; Biot-Savart law; forces between currents; Ampere's law and magnetic flux. Part 4 Electromagnetism: Faraday's law; applications of Faraday's law. Part 5 Magnetism: magnetization of matter; characteristics of B and H; magnetism in matter; production of magnetic fields. Part 6 Maxwell's equations: Gauss's and Faraday's laws; Ampere's and Maxwell's laws; statics and dynamics; free space and matter. Part 7 Electromagnetism and relativity: Lorentz transformations; fields of movings charges; vector potentials; energy of electromagnetic field; retarded potentials. Part 8 Electromagnetic waves in space: wave equations; plane waves; spherical waves; energy density and energy flow. Part 9 Electromagnetic waves in dielectrics: polarization of dielectrics; wave parameters in dielectrics; absorption and disperson. Part 10 Reflection and refraction: boundary relations; Fresnel's equations; energy flow at a boundary; total internal reflection. Part 11 Electromagnetic waves in conductors: wave parameters in conductors; wave impedance and reflectance; energy flow and radiation pressure; plasmas. Part 12 Generation of electromagnetic waves: Hertzian dipole; radiant energy and power; antennas; scattering. Part 13 Guided waves: waveguide equation; rectangular waveguides; waveguide modes; cavities. Appendices: electromagnetic quantities; Gaussian units; physical constants; electromagnetic spectrum; vector calculus; Lorentz transformations; exercises; answers to exercises.