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PHY 415: Electromagnetic Theory I
Prof. S. Teitel stte@pas.rochester.edu ---- Fall 2018
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From Coulomb to Maxwell: Maxwell's equations for electrostatics, Helmholtz's Theorem, Lorentz force, the magnetic field, Biot-Savart law, current density, local charge conservation and the definition of magnetostatics
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Maxwell's equations for magnetostatics, Faraday's Law, Maxwell's correction to Ampere's Law, EM waves, systems of units, scalar and vector potentials in statics
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Potentials and gauge invariance in dynamics, Lorentz gauge, Coulomb gauge, longitudinal and transverse parts of a vector function, review of Fourier transforms
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Physical meaning of the electrostatic potential, Green's function, conductors in electrostatics, Coulomb problem as a boundary value problem, electric field at a charged surface, Dirichlet vs Neumann boundary condition, examples
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