Mathematical Physics Final Honours and Diploma
Electromagnetism

Brian Dolan

Textbooks:

1.

Reitz and Milford: Foundations of Electromagnetic Theory

2.

Griffiths: Introduction to electrodynamics

3.

Jackson: Classical Electrodynamics (advanced but complete)

4.

Lorrain and Corson: Electromagnetic fields and waves

5.

Landau and Lifschitz: Electrodynamics of Continuous Media

6.

Feynman, Leighton and Sands: The Feynman lectures on physics, vol. 2
(good for intuitive explanations)

Topics:

1.

Summary of Maxwell's equations

2.

Electrostatics

3.

Magnetostatics

4.

Maxwell's equations in matter

5.

Plane waves

6.

Radiation from simple systems

7.

Relativistic formulation

Lecture notes for this course postscript, PDF.