Electromagnetic Theory: Supplementary Notes

This page has links to the supplemenary notes — my own notes, or interesting web pages on the Internet — for my Electromagnetic Theory (I) class (387 K, Spring 2024, unique=56180).

• Intoduction to electrostatic boundary problems.
• Separation of variables method.
• Multipole expansion; mathermatical supplement.
• Highlights of magnetostatics.
• Polarization, Magnetization, and related issues.
  Also, undergraduate-level introductions to polarization and bound charges and to magnetization and bound currents.
• Faraday's Induction Law; see also longer, undergraduate-level notes on the subject.
• Dynamics of a charged particle and gauge transforms of wavefunctions.
• Magnetic energy.
• Eddy currents:
  • Wikipedia article;
  • demo from K&J Magnetics;
  • demo from National MagLabs;
  • my notes on eddy currents, diffusion, and skin effect.
• Maxwell equations and how to solve them.
• Energy, momentum, and stress tensor of the electromagnetic fields.
• Electric-magnetric duality and Dirac's magnetic monopoles.
• Plane EM waves and their polarizations.
• Refraction and reflection of the electromagnetic waves.
• EM wave absorption in water (Wikipedia article).
• Gaussian wave packets.
• Dispersion.
• Symmetries of mechanics and electromagnetism.
• Waveguides.
• Microwave cavity resonators (Wikipedia article).
• Optical fibers (Wikipedia article).
• Radiation by compact antennas.
• Antenna basics (Wikipedia article).
• Radiation by a linear antenna.
• Partial wave analysis (for the scalar waves).
• Aharonov–Bohm effect and SQUIDs.