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    This course is a one semester advanced course on electrodynamics at the MSc level. It will cover Maxwell's equations, electromagnetic waves, special relativity, and applications of relativistic electrodynamics. The course consists of 40 lectures split into three modules: electromagnetic waves, relativity and electrodynamics, and relativistic electrodynamics applications. Module 1 covers Maxwell's equations, electromagnetic wave propagation and radiation. Module 2 introduces special relativity and the covariant formulation of Maxwell's equations. Module 3 applies relativistic electrodynamics to topics like radiation from accelerating charges.

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    This course is a one semester advanced course on electrodynamics at the MSc level. It will cover Maxwell's equations, electromagnetic waves, special relativity, and applications of relativistic electrodynamics. The course consists of 40 lectures split into three modules: electromagnetic waves, relativity and electrodynamics, and relativistic electrodynamics applications. Module 1 covers Maxwell's equations, electromagnetic wave propagation and radiation. Module 2 introduces special relativity and the covariant formulation of Maxwell's equations. Module 3 applies relativistic electrodynamics to topics like radiation from accelerating charges.

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    This course is a one semester advanced course on electrodynamics at the MSc level. It will cover Maxwell's equations, electromagnetic waves, special relativity, and applications of relativistic electrodynamics. The course consists of 40 lectures split into three modules: electromagnetic waves, relativity and electrodynamics, and relativistic electrodynamics applications. Module 1 covers Maxwell's equations, electromagnetic wave propagation and radiation. Module 2 introduces special relativity and the covariant formulation of Maxwell's equations. Module 3 applies relativistic electrodynamics to topics like radiation from accelerating charges.

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    NPTEL Syllabus

    Electrodynamics - Web course


    COURSE OUTLINE The course is a one semester advanced course on Electrodynamics at the M.Sc. Level. It will start by revising the behaviour of electric and magnetic fields, in vacuum as well as matter, and casting it in the language of scalar and vector potentials. Writing Maxwell equations in the same language will lead to the analysis of electromagnetic waves, their propagation, scattering and radiation. Special relativity will be introduced, which will allow the covariant formulation of Maxwell's equations and the Lagrangian formulation of electrodynamics. Relativistic motion of charges in electromagnetic fields, and the motion of electromagnetic fields through matter will be covered, with plenty of examples.

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    Physics
    Pre-requisites: 1. Introductory course on Electricity and Magnetism at the level of D. J. Griffiths, Introduction to Electrodynamics. Additional Reading: 1. W. Greiner, Classical Electrodynamics, Springer (2009). 2. R. Resnick, Introduction to Special Relativity, Wiley (1992). Coordinators:

    COURSE DETAIL Lectures Topics

    Module I: Electromagnetic waves

    Lecture 1: Maxwell's equations: a review

    Maxwell's equations in vacuum, Maxwell's equations inside matter

    Lecture 2: Solving static boundary value problems

    Uniqueness theorems, Separation of variables for Poisson's equation

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    Lecture 3: Timedependent electromagnetic

    Relaxation to a stationary state, Propagating plane electromagnetic (EM) wave, Decaying plane EM wave

    fields

    Lecture 4: Energy in electric and magnetic fields

    Energy in static electric field, Energy in static magnetic field, Energy stored and transported by EM waves

    Lecture 5: EM waves with boundaries

    EM waves at dielectric boundaries: reflection, refraction, EM waves in conductors: inside and at the boundary

    Lectures 6-7: EM Rectangular waveguides, Circular waves in confined cylindrical waveguides, Coaxial cable, spaces Cavities

    Lecture 8: EM wave equations with sources

    Wave equation for scalar and vector potentials with sources, Solving the wave equation with sources

    Lecture 9: EM radiation

    Electric and magnetic fields: radiation components, Radiation energy loss, Radiation from antennas

    Lectures 10-11: Multipole expansion, Electric dipole Multipole radiation radiation, Magnetic dipole and electric quadrupole radiation

    Lecture 12: Problems

    Module II: Relativity and electrodynamics

    Lecture 1: From electrodynamics to Special Relativity

    Faraday's law and Lorentz force, Motivations for Special Relativity, Lorentz transformations

    Lecture 2: Lorentz Length, time, velocity, acceleration, EM transformations of wave: aberration and Doppler effect, observables Transformations of electric and magnetic fields

    Lecture 3: Defining momentum in Special Relativity, Relativistic energy Defining relativistic energy and momentum

    Lecture 4: Covariant and contravariant 4vectors

    Covariance and contravariance, Examples of 4-vectors: x, del, p, J, A, u, A

    Lecture 5: Metric and higher-rank 4-tensors

    Metric and invariant scalar products, Second rank 4-tensors: symmetric and antisymmetric, Higher-rank 4-tensors

    Lecture 6: Tensor calculus

    Length, area, 3-volume and 4-volume in 4-d, Gauss's law and Stokes' theorem in 4-d

    Lecture 7: Relativistic kinematics

    Two-body scattering, Decay of a particle

    Lecture 8: EM field The electromagnetic field tensor F, tensor 'and Maxwell's equations in terms of F and FMaxwell's tilde equations

    Lectures 9-10: Lagrangian formulation of relativistic mechanics

    Lagrangian, Hamiltonian, energy, equations of motion, Non-relativistic particle in a potential, Relativistic free particle, Relativistic particle in EM fields

    Lecture 11: Lagrangian formulation of relativistic electrodynamics

    Volume distribution of changes in EM fields, Field-field interaction and Maxwell's equations

    Lecture 12: Problems

    Module III: Relativistic electrodynamics: applications

    Lectures 1-2: Relativistic equations of motion, Particle Motion of charges in a unifrm electric field, Particle in a in E and B fields uniform magnetic field, Particle in combinations of electric and magnetic fields

    Lecture 3: EM potentials from a moving charge

    Lienard-Wiechert potentials: without relativity and using relativity

    Lectures 4-5: EM fields from a uniformly moving charge

    E and B fields from Lienard-Wiechert potentials, E and B fields from Lorentz transformations, Force between two uniformly moving charges

    Lectures 6-7: Cherenkov radiation

    Cherenkov: intuitive understanding and applications, Cherenkov radiation: formal calculations

    Lecture 8: Radiation from an accelerating charge

    From Lienard-Wiechert potentials to EM fields, Calculating relevant derivatives, Calculating E and B fields including their radiative components

    Lecture 9: Radiation from linear motion: Bremsstrahlung

    Radiated power from an accelerating charge, Bremsstrahlung radiation: large velocities

    Lectures 10-11: Radiation from circular orbits: Synchrotron

    Radiation from a circular orbit, Time variation of the radiation signal, Instantaneous pattern of radiated power, Synchrotron radiation for producing Xrays

    Lectures 12-13: radiation reaction force

    Force of an accelerating charge on itself: small acceleration, Radiation damping in ultra-relativistic case

    Lectures 14-15: EM radiation

    Interactions of EM fields with electrons, Scattering of EM wave by a free electron,

    passing through matter

    Scattering of EM wave by a bound electron, Absorption by a bound electron, Refractive index: collective polarization by electrons

    Lecture 16: Problems Total lectures: 12 (module I) + 12 (module II) + 16 (module III) = 40

    References: 1. Panofsky and Phillips, Classical Electricity and Magnetism, 2nd Ed., Dover (2005) . 2. Landau and Lifshitz, The Classical Theory of Fields, 4th Ed., Pergamon (1989). 3. J. D. Jackson, Classical Electrodynamics, 3rd Ed., Wiley (2007).
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