Analytical Electromagnetism                                     (Hebrew)

Prof. Benjamin Svetitsky

Mr. Gary Rozenman

• Lectures:
  Monday 16-17 and Thursday 12–14 in Dach Hall (Lecture Hall 5)
  
  
• Old lectures are available as video:
  
  • Go to video.tau.ac.il, log in, look for 0321–Physics → 3109–Electromagnetism
          -or-
  • Connect directly via the course Web site in Moodle
    
  • Missing information will be posted in Moodle.
    
    
• Exercise session:
  Sunday 12–13 or Wednesday 8–9 in Shenkar 222

For more material see Moodle. The course mailing list is here.

Syllabus

• Maxwell's equations. Fields in matter.
• Electrostatics: Cartesian multipoles, spherical multipoles.
• Boundary value problems in electrostatics. Poisson's equation: Debye screening. Magnetostatics.
• Dynamics: consistency of M.E.'s, wave eq'n, potentials, gauge invariance.
• Energy: electrostatics, magnetostatics, Poynting's theorem and Poynting vector. Dynamics of particle in external field (Lagrangian and Hamiltonian).
• Plane waves: polarization (complex amplitudes), energy and flux. Waves in matter: dispersion and absorption, birefringence and Faraday rotation; skin depth, longitudinal plasma waves; the eikonal approximation and geometrical optics.
• Radiation: Liénard-Wiechert potentials, field strengths. Uniform motion, Larmor formula, bremsstrahlung, synchrotron radiation.
• Radiation from continuous systems: Cartesian multipoles, linear antenna. Thomson and Rayleigh scattering.
• Special relativity: metric, Lorentz transformations, four-vectors, current, field tensor, Lorentz force, field of a moving charge. Maxwell's equations.

Texts:

• J. B. Marion and M. A. Heald, Classical Electromagnetic Radiation [main text]
• J. D. Jackson, Classical Electrodynamics [secondary text]
• Notes
• More material at Moodle

Other recommended books:

Introductory (worth reviewing)

• E. M. Purcell, Electricity and Magnetism [Berkeley Physics Course, Vol. 2]
• R. P. Feynman, R.B. Leighton, and M. Sands, The Feynman Lectures on Physics

Intermediate (our level)

• D. J. Griffiths, Introduction to Electrodynamics **highly recommended**
• E. W. Cowan, Basic Electromagnetism
• P. Lorrain, D.R. Corson, and F. Lorrain, Electromagnetic Fields and Waves
• W. Hauser, Introduction to the Principles of Electromagnetism

Advanced

• L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifshitz, Classical Theory of Fields
• L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifshitz, Electrodynamics of Continuous Media
• M. Born and E. Wolf, Principles of Optics

History

E. T. Whittaker, A History of the Theories of Æther and Electricity

J. C. Maxwell, A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism