8.07
Electromagnetism II
Survey of basic electromagnetic phenomena: electrostatics, magnetostatics; electromagnetic properties of matter. Time-dependent electromagnetic fields and Maxwell's equations. Electromagnetic waves, emission, absorption, and scattering of radiation. Relativistic electrodynamics and mechanics.
Fall 2012
Topics
- Vector Analysis
- Rotations in Index Notation
- Integral Formulation of Basic Equations
- Conductors: Surface Forces and Capacitance
- Image Charge Method; Separation of Variables
- Separation of Variables in Spherical Coordinates
- A Spherical Shell of Charge with a Circular Hole
- The Traceless Symmetric Tensor Expansion and Standard Spherical Harmonics
- Traceless Symmetric Tensor Approach to Legendre Polynomials and Spherical Harmonics
- Magnetic Multipole Expansion and Magnetic Dipoles
- Magnetic Dipoles and Magnetic Fields in Matter
- Reversed Cherenkov Radiation in Left-Handed Meta-material
- Flipping Photons Backward: Reversed Cherenkov Radiation Inspired by Metamaterials
- Electromagnetic Waves
- Potentials and Fields
- Radiation
- E&M Review on Waves, Potentials, and Radiation
Readings
- Griffiths, David J. Introduction to Electrodynamics . 3rd ed. Prentice Hall of India, 1998. ISBN: 9788120316010.
Prerequisites & course information
Prereq: 8.03 and 18.03 U (Fall) 4-0-8 units
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- MIT OpenCourseWare ↗Fall 2012
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.