Syllabus

Boundary value problems using Green's Functions, Electromagnetic waves in vacuum, Maxwell's stress tensor, momentum conservation, Poynting theorem, Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulation of electrodynamics, Gauge transformations, Coulomb gauge and Lorentz gauge, Electromagnetic waves in matter, reflection, transmission, Causality and Kramers-Kronig relations, negative-index materials, Cavities and Wave Guides.
Radiation: Retarded Green's functions, Lienard-Wiechert potentials dipole radiation, spectral resolution and angular distribution of radiation from a relativistic point charge collision problems bremsstrahlung & synchrotron radiation, radiation damping.

To provide basics on electrodynamics beyond +3 level as required for master level course.

Students will learn basics beyond Maxwell’s equations and their applications to the theory of electromagnetic waves and properties.

J. D. Jackson, Classical Electrodynamics, Wiley and sons Ltd

D. J. Griffiths, Introduction to Electrodynamics, Pearson Education

W. K. H. Panofsky & M. Phillips, Classical Electricity and Magnetism, Dover

R. P. Feynman, R. P. Feynman Lectures on Physics (vol.II), Addison Wesley, Narosa