Dhrubaditya Mitra

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"From a long view of the history of mankind—seen from, say, ten thousand years from now—there can be little doubt that the most significant event of the 19th century will be judged as Maxwell’s discovery of the laws of electrodynamics. The American Civil War will pale into provincial insignificance in comparison with this important scientific event of the same decade."
R.P. Feynman in The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol II, Chapter 1 Section 6.

Undergraduate course on Electrodynamics

These lectures were delivered in the Spring Semester of 2015. They cover the theoretical basics of electrodynamics. We start with Coulumb's law and end with writing down Maxwell's equations. As an undergraduate student, electrodynamics was my second favourite topic (second to classical mechanics). The three books I learnt is from are

Individual lecture notes, which are hand-written and scanned, are linked below :

The lectures on electric and magnetic fields in materials were not included in the final examination.

Problems sets and their solutions

In addition there were three lectures by my colleague Lars Mattson on circuit theory. There were also lab sessions.

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