Syllabus

Electrostatics: Electric field, divergence and curl of electrostatic field, electric potential, boundary conditions, work and energy in electrostatics, conductors, Laplace's equation (1D,2D,3D), boundary condition and uniqueness theorems, method of images, separation of variables, multipole expansion, Electric fields in Matter.
Magnetostatics: The Lorentz force law, Biot-Savart law, magnetic Vector potential, boundary conditions, multipole expansion of vector potential, magnetization, magnetic materials, torque and forces on magnetic dipoles, field of a magnetized object, the auxiliary field H, boundary conditions, linear and non-linear media.
Electrodynamics: Electromotive force, electro-magnetic induction, Maxwell's equations, boundary conditions.

To know the basic concepts of electrostatics and magnetostatics.

CO1: To understand the microscopic behavior of the materials in presence of electric/ magnetic fields
CO2: To estimate of physical parameters of a system using the basic laws of electricity and magnetism
CO3: To know the basics of electrodynamics

D. J. Griffiths, Introduction to electrodynamics, Prentice Hall, 4th edition,

E. M. Purcell, Electricity and Magnetism, Berkeley Physics Course -Vol 2, McGraw-Hill India.

W. K. H. Panofsky, M. Phillips, Classical Electricity and Magnetism, Dover Publications, 2nd edition

J. D. Jackson, Classical Electrodynamics, Wiley and sons Ltd. 3rd edition