Electrity and Magnetism

Notes from Dr Peter Cargill Lectures

Part I
Introduction

• it is a fundemental force of nature
• electomagnetic radiation
• technology
• the environment of space

Part II
Maxwell's Equations

• Maxwell's Equations
  • Electric Charge
  • Magnetism
  • Vector and Vector Fields
  • Revision of Maxwell's Equations
  • Materials in Electromagnetic Theory
  • Forms of Maxwell's Equations
  • Vector and Scaler Potentials
  • Electromagnetic and Special Relativity

Part III
Electromagnetic Energy

• EM Energy
  • Forms of Electromagnetic Energy
  • Poynting's Theorem and FLow of Electromagnetic Energy
  • Example - Energy Flow
  • Other Examples

Part IV
Electromagnetic Waves in a Vacuum

• Electromagnetic Waves in a Vacuum
  • Wave Equation for Electromagnetic Waves in a Vacuum
  • Properties of Electromagnetic Waves in a Vacuum
  • Radiation Pressure
  • Wave Polarisation
  • Electromagnetic Waves in Three Dimensions
  • Electromagnetic Waves in Complex Notation

Part V
Electromagnetic Waves in a Dielectric

• Electromagnetic Waves in a Dielectric
  • Electromagnetic Waves in HIL Dielectrics
  • Boundary Conditions at the Interface of Two Dielectrics
  • The Laws of Optics (Reflection and Refraction)
  • Fresnel Equations - Incident Electric Field Is Normal to The Plane of Incidence
  • Reflection and Transmission
  • Total Internal Reflection and the Evanescent Wave

Part VI
Electromagnetic Waves in Conductors

• Electromagnetic Waves in Conductors
  • Maxwell's Equations in a Conductor
  • Waves in Good Conductors
  • Reflection at a Dielectric to Metal Interface

Part VII
Electromagnetic Waves in a Plasma

• Electromagnetic Waves in Plasmas
  • Introduction
  • Conduction in Plasmas
  • The Wave Equation in a Collisionless Plasma
  • Examples of Plasmas

Part VIII
Guided Electromagnetic Waves

• Guided Electromagnetic Waves
  • Introduction

This document was translated from L^AT_EX by H^EV^EA and H^AC^HA.