Table of Contents

1 Introduction.- 2 Electrostatics.- 2.1 Coulomb’s law.- 2.2 Gauss’s law.- 2.3 Electric potential.- 2.4 Electrostatic energy.- 2.5 Dielectrics.- 3 Electric potential and fields.- 3.1 Poisson’s and Laplace’s equations.- 3.2 Solutions of Laplace’s equation.- 3.3 Electrical images.- 3.4 Electron optics.- 4 Magnetostatics.- 4.1 Electric current.- 4.2 Lorentz force.- 4.3 Biot-Savart law.- 4.4 Forces between currents.- 4.5 Ampère’s law and magnetic flux.- 5 Electromagnetism.- 5.1 Faraday’s law.- 5.2 Applications of Faraday’s law.- 6 Magnetism.- 6.1 Magnetisation of matter.- 6.2 Characteristics of B and H.- 6.3 Magnetism in matter.- 6.4 Production of magnetic fields.- 7 Maxwell’s equations.- 7.1 Gauss’s and Faraday’s laws.- 7.2 Ampère’s and Maxwell’s laws.- 7.3 Statics and dynamics.- 7.4 Solutions.- Appendix 1 Electric and magnetic quantities.- Appendix 2 Physical constants.- Appendix 3 Vector operators.- Appendix 4 Exercises.- Appendix 5 Answers to exercises.

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