Prerequisite: Nil
Syllabus:
Electrostatics: Gauss's
law and its applications, Divergence and Curl of Electrostatic
fields,Electrostatic Potential, Boundary conditions, Work and Energy,
Conductors, Capacitors, Laplace's equation, Method of images, Boundary value
problems in Cartesian Coordinate Systems, Dielectrics, Polarization, Bound
Charges, Electric displacement, Boundary conditions in dielectrics, Energy in
dielectrics, Forces on dielectrics.
Magnetostatics: Lorentz
force, Biot-Savart and Ampere's laws and their applications, Divergence and
Curl of Magnetostatic fields, Magnetic vector Potential, Force and torque on a
magnetic dipole, Magnetic materials, Magnetization, Bound currents, Boundary
conditions.
Electrodynamics: Ohm's law,
Motional EMF, Faraday's law, Lenz's law, Self and Mutual inductance, Energy
stored in magnetic field, Maxwell's equations, Continuity Equation, Poynting
Theorem, Wave solution of Maxwell Equations.
Electromagnetic
waves: Polarization, reflection & transmission at
oblique incidences.
Texts:
1.D. J. Griffiths, Introduction
to Electrodynamics, 3rd Edition, Prentice
Hall of India, 2005.
References:
1. Engineering Electromagnetics by N. Ida,
Springer, 2005.
2. Elements of Electromagnetics by M. N. O.
Sadiku, Oxford, 2006.
3. The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol.II
by R. P. Feynman, R. B. Leighton and M. Sands, Narosa Publishing House, 1998.
4. Electromagnetism
by I. S. Grant and W. R. Phillips, John Wiley, 1990.