Electrodynamics: An Intensive Course - Tapa dura

“This book presents the theory of electromagnetism and is aimed at an advanced undergraduate or early graduate student ... . Each chapter includes five solved problems ... which nicely complement the chapter’s content, and 10 unsolved problems that help fill in more calculational details and provide some practice with the theoretical formalism.” (Peter Bernard Weichman, Mathematical Reviews, August, 2017)

This book is devoted to the fundamentals of classical electrodynamics, one of the most beautiful and productive theories in physics. A general survey on the applicability of physical theories shows that only few theories can be compared to electrodynamics. Essentially, all electric and electronic devices used around the world are based on the theory of electromagnetism.

It was Maxwell who created, for the first time, a unified description of the electric and magnetic phenomena in his electromagnetic field theory. Remarkably, Maxwell’s theory contained in itself also the relativistic invariance of the special relativity, a fact which was discovered only a few decades later.

We hope that the reader will not only acquire knowledge, but will also grasp the beauty of theoretical physics. A set of about 130 solved and proposed problems shall help to attain this aim.