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

Electric charge Coulomb's law Electric field Gauss' law Electrostatic work Electrostatic potential Poisson's equation Method of images

Electric current Resistor Resistance Capacitor Capacitance

Magnetostatics

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

See also: Magnetism

Electrodynamics

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

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
• Jones calculus

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