Classical Electrodynamics II

Academic year 2025/2026
Lecturer Giuseppe La Rocca

Examination procedure

<p>written and oral exam</p>

Examination procedure notes

<p>written and oral exam</p>

Prerequisites

the class is for chemistry and physics second year students, prerequisite is the Classical Electrodynamics I class

Syllabus

6. Macroscopic Maxwell’s equations

7. Optical response functions

8. Phenomenological models of dielectric response

9. Propagation of e.m. waves in continuous media

10. Dispersion relations and sum rules

Bibliographical references

Handouts

Jackson “Classical Electrodynamics”

Landau-Lifsits “Electrodynamics of continuous media”