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Syllabus:

Electrodynamics, 6 credits

Swedish name: Elektrodynamik C
This syllabus is valid: 2011-06-27 and until further notice
Course code: 5FY011
Credit points: 6
Education level: First cycle
Main Field of Study and progress level: Physics: First cycle, has less than 60 credits in first-cycle course/s as entry requirements
Grading scale: Pass with distinction, Pass with merit, Pass, Pass with distinction, Pass, Fail
Responsible department: Department of Physics

Contents

Electric and magnetic fields in matter. Boundary value problems, separation of variables. Maxwell's equations. Plane waves, polarisation. Poynting´s theorem. Plane waves in media, dispersion relations. Optics, reflection and refraction. Wave packages, phase- and group-velocity. Wave guides. Radiation from accelerated charges, Larmor´s formula.

Required Knowledge

Foundations of Electromagnetics, or equivalent.

Literature

Griffiths David J.q (David Jeffery)
Introduction to electrodynamics
3. ed. : Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall : cop. 1999 : 576 s. :
ISBN: 0-13-805326-X
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Griffiths David J.q (David Jeffery)
Introduction to electrodynamics
3. ed. : Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall : cop. 1999 : 576 s. :
ISBN: 0-13-805326-X
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue