Venue: Emmy Noether Seminar Room
Class Timings: Mondays, Tuesdays & Friday from 9:45 AM - 11: 15 AM
First Meeting: 8 January 2024
Course Description:
This will be an course in electromagnetic theory at the level of Landau and Lifshitz and Jackson. The emphasis will be on electromagnetism as an example of a relativistic classical field theory. The course will begin with special relativity and view Maxwell's equations from a slightly advanced point of view. The aim is to help beginning students to make the transition to research. There will be two 90 minute lectures a week and one tutorial. Solving problems is an essential part of the course. Each lecture will begin with a simple 15 minute quiz to help the instructor pitch the lectures at the appropriate level.
Evaluation: The grading policy will be based on the following weightage :
- Class Quizzes: 20%
- Assignments: 40%
- Class participation 10%
- End term Exam: 30%
Note that Assignments form a central part of this course since one of the main aims of this course is to get students to actively solve problems.
Prerequisites: Firm grounding in vector calculus, Stokes' and Green's theorems and a familiarity with electromagnetic phenomena at the level of the Berkeley Physics Course.
- Teacher: Joseph Samuel