Electrodynamics, spring 2008

A brief description of the main contents of each chapter follows. Items marked by an asterisk (*) do not belong to the exam requirements. References are given to the chapters of Reitz, Milford and Christie (RMC, 1993). Note that there is not an exact one-to-one relation between the lecture notes and RMC. In some cases, Jackson (1998) is referred to.

0. Alkusanat (Foreword)

1. Johdanto (Introduction)
- Contains a list of suggested reading

2. Staattinen sähkökenttä (Static electric field, RMC 2-3)
- Coulomb's law, electrostatic potential, Gauss' law, electrostatic conductor
- Dipole field, multipole expansion
- Poisson and Laplace equations, method of images
- Green's functions (*)

3. Sähkökenttä väliaineessa (Electric field in a medium, RMC 4)
- Polarization
- Electric flux density, permittivity
- Boundary conditions
- Molecular polarizability (* RMC 5)

4. Sähköstaattinen energia (Electrostatic energy, RMC 6)
- Different ways to express the electrostatic energy
- Electrostatic energy in a simple medium
- Maxwell stress tensor

5. Staattinen magneettikenttä (Static magnetic field, RMC 7-8)
- Electric current, continuity equation, Ohm's law
- Biot and Savart's law, Ampere's law
- Vector potential, multipole expansion, scalar potential
- Lorentz force

6. Magneettikenttä väliaineessa (Magnetic field in a medium, RMC 9)
- Magnetization
- Magnetic field strength, permeability
- Boundary conditions
- Molecular magnetic field (RMC 10)
- Diamagnetism, paramagnetism, ferromagnetism (qualitative descriptions, RMC 10)

7. Sähkömagneettinen induktio (Electromagnetic induction, RMC 11)

8. Magneettinen energia (Magnetic energy, RMC 12 + basic concepts of RMC 13)

9. Maxwellin yhtälöt (Maxwell's equations, RMC 16; stress tensor: Jackson)

10. Sähkömagneettiset aallot (Electromagnetic waves, RMC 17)

11. Aaltojen heijastuminen ja taittuminen (Reflection and refraction, RMC 18)

12. Aaltoputket ja resonanssikaviteetit (Wave guides and resonant cavities, RMC 18.7, 18.8)

13. Liikkuvan varauksen kenttä (Field of a moving charge, RMC 21)

14. Elektrodynamiikka ja suhteellisuusteoria (Electrodynamics and the special theory of relativity, RMC 22)

15. Varatun hiukkasen liike SM-kentässä ja sisällysluettelo (Equation of motion in the electromagnetic field and contents, Jackson 12.2-12.3, 16.1-16.2)

Havaitut painovirheet (Found misprints and some additions)