Electrostatics

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Math

Electrostatics

  • Coulomb's Law, Charge and the Electric Field
  • Gauss' Law and the Divergence of E
  • Electric Potential and the Curl of E
  • Work and Energy
  • Conductors and Capacitors
  • Poisson's and Laplace's Equations
  • Method of Images
  • Separation of Variables
  • Multipole Expansion

Electric Fields in Matter

  • Polarization, Feilds and Dielectrics
  • Electric Displacement (D)
  • Boundary Value Problems

Magnetostatics

  • Lorentz Force Law
  • Current and Charge Density
  • Biot-Savart Law
  • Ampere's Law and the Divergence & Curl of B
  • Vector Potential (A) and the Multipole Expansion

Magnetic Fields in Matter

  • Magnetization and Dipoles
  • Bound Currents and Fields
  • Auxiliary Field (H) and Linear Media

Electrodynamics

  • EMF
  • Inductance
  • Maxwell's Equations
  • Relativity