Classical Electrodynamics I

Academic year 2024/2025
Lecturer Giuseppe La Rocca, Franco Ligabue

Examination procedure

<p>written and oral exam</p>

Prerequisites

for chemistry, physics and maths second year students; prerequisites are the first year maths and physics courses

Syllabus

1. Electrostatics and magnetostatics

2. Mathematical methods for electrostatics

3. Maxwell’s equations

4. Electromagnetic waves

5. Simple radiating systems

6. Introduction to special relativity

7. Covariant formulation of electrodynamics

Bibliographical references

Handouts

Jackson “Classical Electrodynamics”