The crash course in electromagnetics aims to give the students who do not have a background in this subject a brief introduction to it. The course is voluntary and there is no need for signing up. There will be no exam or compulsory exercises.
Lecture Plan
| Date | Time | Room | Topics | Lecture notes | Exercises | Solutions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monday 3/8 | 09.15-12.00 | EL3 | Maxwell's equations, Coulomb's law, Vector calculus | |||
| Tuesday 4/8 | 09.15-12.00 | EL3 | Vector calculus, Gauss' law, scalar potential, Capacitance | |||
| Wednesday 5/8 | 09.15-12.00 | EL3 | Exercise session | |||
| Thursday 6/8 | 09.15-12.00 | EL3 | Electric fields in media, Boundary conditions for electric fields, Ideal conductors, Current density, Ohm's law | |||
| Friday 7/8 | 09.15-12.00 | EL3 | Biot-Savart’s law, Ampere’s law | |||
| Wednesday 12/8 | 09.15-12.00 | EL3 | Magnetic fields in media, Induction, Inductance, Lenz’s law | |||
| Thursday 13/8 | 09.15-12.00 | EL3 | Wave equation for the electric field, Maxwell's equations, Antenna equations | |||
| Friday 14/8 | 09.15-12.00 | EL3 | Summary |
Lecturer:
Hossein Ehya
E-mail: hossein.ehya@ntnu.no
Office: Elektro E/F, F414
Course Materials:
The lecture notes, exercises and solutions will be uploaded on schedule. We will be mainly using the material from previous years. Below are some additional resources:
- TFE4120 Elektromagnetisme (NTNU, 2013)
- Electromagnetism (Yale, 2010) (English)
- The Feynman Lectures on Physics: http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/
- Griffiths, “Introduction to Electrodynamics”, last edition, Prentice Hall.
- Young & Freedman: University Physics.
- Popovic & Popovic, “Introductory Electromagnetics” Prentice Hall, 2000.