Classical electrodynamics

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Contents 1 Electrostatics 2 Magnetostatics 3 Electrodynamics 4 Fields in matter 5 Interaction with matter 6 Electromagnetic waves 7 Radiation 8 Conservation 9 Transmission lines and waveguides 10 Scattering 11 Electrodynamics and special relativity 12 Other topics 13 Related subjects 14 Resources

Electrostatics

• Charge
• Coulomb's law
• Electric field
• Gauss' law
• Electrostatic work
• Electrostatic potential
• Poisson's equation
• Method of images
• Electric current

Magnetostatics

• Magnetic dipole moment
• Gyromagnetic ratio
• Earnshaw's theorem

See also: Magnetism

Electrodynamics

• Maxwell's equations
• Boundary conditions for E and B
• Electromagnetic potentials
• Gauge transformation
• Lorenz gauge
• Retarded potentials

Fields in matter

• Maxwell's equations in matter
• Boundary conditions for D and H
• Hard ferromagnet
• Hard ferromagnetic sphere

Interaction with matter

• Larmor precession

Electromagnetic waves

• Electromagnetic waves
• Electromagnetic waves in a dielectric medium
• Electromagnetic waves in a conductor

Radiation

• Radiation due to a harmonic source
• Liénard-Wiechert Potentials
• Hertz vector potentials

Conservation

• Angular momentum
• Poynting's theorem
• Maxwell stress tensor
• Stress-energy tensor
• Self-force on time independent current distribution

Transmission lines and waveguides

• Rectangular waveguide

Scattering

• Rayleigh scattering
• Mie scattering

Electrodynamics and special relativity

• Behaviour of E and B under Lorentz transformations

Other topics

• Geometrical formulation
• Earnshaw's theorem

Related subjects

• Analog circuits
• Optics
• Plasma physics
• Quantum mechanics
• Quantum electrodynamics

Resources

• Books
• Websites
• Papers