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 8/8 | 09.15-12.00 | E6 | Maxwell's equations, Coulomb's law, Vector calculus | |||
| Tuesday 9/8 | 09.15-12.00 | E6 | Gauss' law, scalar potential, Capacitance | lecture2.pdf | ov2.pdf | |
| Wednesday 10/8 | 09.15-12.00 | E6 | Electric fields in media, Boundary conditions for electric fields, Ideal conductors, Current density | ov3.pdf | lf3.pdf | |
| Thursday 11/8 | 09.15-12.00 | E6 | Exercise help session | |||
| Monday 15/8 | 09.15-12.00 | S4 | Magnetic fields, Biot-Savart’s law, Ampere’s law | |||
| Tuesday 16/8 | 09.15-12.00 | S4 | Ampere’s law in media, Induction, Inductance, Lenz’s law | |||
| Wednesday 17/8 | 09.15-12.00 | S4 | Wave equation for the electric field, Maxwell's equations, Antenna equations. Summary | |||
| Friday 19/8 | 09.15-12.00 | S4 | Exercise help session |
Exercise help available during physical meetings on 11th and 19th August or by email: sandra.y.munoz@ntnu.no
Lecturer:
Anyuan Chen
E-mail: anyuan.chen@ntnu.no
Office: Elektro E/F, E459
Assistant:
Sandra Yuste
E-mail: sandra.y.munoz@ntnu.no
Office: Elektro B, B419
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.