What You Will Learn!
- Electromagnetic Conservation Laws: Charge & Energy Conservation.
- Electromagnetic Momentum Conservation, introducing the Maxwell Stress Tensor.
- Electromagnetic Angular Momentum.
- Solved exercices of the diferent topics.
- Introduction to Radiation.
Description
In this course we will work all the theory corresponding to the Electromagnetic laws but in a dynamic situation.
The normal way to teach EM is first building a theory where all the system is static. In that case, you can obtain basic physical laws and understand the nature of electromagnetic interactions.
Once that is done, its interesting go further and see what happens when the system is free to evolve in time. This is what we call Electrodynamics and will led us to interesting results.
Obviously, the new results that we will find here have to be consistent with the fundamental static theory. During the lectures, we will see that sometimes, we derive the static equations from the new dynamic ones just to verify that the math work was well done.
This is the way scientists have created new theories using the Scientific Method. One famous example of this is the General and Special Relativity introduced by Albert Einstein. These theories improve and go further than the previous laws of Gravitation intoduced by Isaac Newton.
So, the main goal of this course is to learn many concepts about Electrodynamics with the support of some lectures and examples presenting solved exercices.
Who Should Attend!
- Undergraduate Physics or Engineering students.
- Also presented for anyone who has curiosity about the explanation of electrodynamics laws.
