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 9/8 | 09.15-12.00 | on-line | Maxwell's equations, Coulomb's law, Vector calculus | |||
| Tuesday 10/8 | 09.15-12.00 | on-line | Vector calculus, Gauss' law, scalar potential, Capacitance | |||
| Wednesday 11/8 | 09.15-12.00 | on-line | Exercise session | |||
| Thursday 12/8 | 09.15-12.00 | on-line | Electric fields in media, Boundary conditions for electric fields, Ideal conductors, Current density, Ohm's law | |||
| Friday 13/8 | 09.15-12.00 | on-line | Biot-Savart’s law, Ampere’s law | |||
| Wednesday 18/8 | 09.15-12.00 | on-line | Magnetic fields in media, Induction, Inductance, Lenz’s law | |||
| Thursday 19/8 | 09.15-12.00 | on-line | Wave equation for the electric field, Maxwell's equations, Antenna equations | |||
| Friday 20/8 | 09.15-12.00 | on-line | Summary |
Lecturer:
Emiliano Descrovi
E-mail: emiliano.descrovi@ntnu.no
Office: Elektro A, A471
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.