Electrodynamics

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Electrodynamics

Contents 1 Preface 2 Table of Contents 2.1 Electrostatics 2.2 Magnetostatics 2.3 Tensor Calculus 2.4 Relativity 2.5 Time-Dependant Electromagnetics 2.6 Electromagnetic Waves 2.7 Resources and Licensing 3 Old Chapters 4 Unused Pages

[edit] Preface

This book requires that you first read Calculus Special Relativity

This book is intended for advanced readers.

This book is going to cover the topic of electrodynamics using vector calculus. We will provide a brief refresher to the topics of vector calculus, but this book does not intend to teach that topic to students who do not have any background in it. For more information about calculus and vector calculus topics, see Calculus and Linear Algebra. Because this book is part of a series of books on Modern Physics, the reader is assumed to have a background in relativity theory, or to be able to concurrently read the Special Relativity book.

This book is going to discuss the electric and magnetic fields and forces, and related subjects. It is intended to be read by advanced undergraduates in the field of physics or engineering.

This book is new and needs a lot of work. This is a wiki, so you can contribute.

[edit] Table of Contents

• Introduction
• History
• Vector Calculus Review

[edit] Electrostatics

• Electric Charge
• Coulombs Law
• Electric Field
• Gauss's Law
• Electric Energy
• Ohm's Law
• Laplace's Equation

[edit] Magnetostatics

• Magnetic Fields
• Biot-Savart Law
• Magnetic Potential
• Ampere's Law
• Magnetization
• Lorentz Force

[edit] Tensor Calculus

• Tensors
• Electrostatic Stress Tensor
• Magnetic Stress Tensor

[edit] Relativity

• Lorentz Transformation
• Four-Vectors
• Electromagnetic Field Tensors
• Maxwell's Equations
• Magnetic Monopoles
• Relativistic Electromagnetism

[edit] Time-Dependant Electromagnetics

• Faraday's Law
• Poynting Vector
• Electromagnetic Mass
• Displacement Current
• Conservation Theorems

[edit] Electromagnetic Waves

• Electromagnetic Radiation
• Lienard-Wiechert Potentials
• Radiation Fields
• Polarization

See also: Waves

[edit] Resources and Licensing

• Glossary
• List of Equations
• Units and Lables
• Notation
• Resources
• Licensing

[edit] Old Chapters

These chapters are mostly stub pages and need to be integrated into the new book outline or deleted.

• Forces on Currents in Conductors
• Torque on a Magnetic Dipole and Electric Motors
• EMF and Scalar Potential

[edit] Unused Pages

These pages don't really fit into the book as it is now, and might need to be moved or deleted.

• Resistance and Resistors