After successful completion of the course, students are able to understand the content listed below, in a way that they are able to solve related exercises on their own and present their solutions understandably.

• special relativity and electromagnetism in covariant form
• electromagnetic waves in vaccum and in matter
• optics and dispersion
• modes in wave guides
• radiation of electromagnetic waves
• Larmor formula and Lienard-Wiechert potentials
• numerical methods

Students are given lecture-related exercises. They prepare and upload them independently within two week and present their solutions in front of the group. Every other week there will be a question-and-answer session related to the ongoing exercises.

see modus.pdf inTUWEL

The assessment is based on the number of solved exercises as well as on the quality of the hand-ins and presentations.

• G.Pollack, D.Stump: Electromagnetism (2002)
• A.Zangwill: Modern Electrodynamics (2012)

Electrodynamics I