Electromagnetism

Electrostatics: Coulomb's law, scalar potential, Gauss' law, dielectric media, capacitance, currents, resistance, electrostatic energy. Magnetostatics: Biot-Savart's law, Ampere's law, vector potential, magnetic materials and circuits, energy and forces. Electrodynamics: Electromagnetic induction, Faraday's law and inductance.

Knowledge: The candidate has - good knowledge of the laws of electrostatics: Coulomb's law, potential, Gaussian law, dielectric media, capacitance, currents and resistance, electrostatic energy. - good knowledge of the laws of magnetostatics: Forces between current elements, Ampere's law, vector potential, magnetic media and circuits, energy and forces. - good knowledge of the generalization of electro- and magnetostatic laws of electrodynamics: electromagnetic induction, Faraday's law, inductance. Displacement current. Maxwell's equations. Skills: The candidate can - apply the laws of electrostatics: Coulomb's law, potential, Gaussian law, dielectric media, capacitance, currents and resistance, electrostatic energy. - use the laws of magnetostatics: forces between current elements, Ampere's law, vector potential, magnetic media and circuits, energy and forces. - understand the physical principles in classical electromagnetism - solve problems in classical electromagnetics using mathematics and physical understanding. - understand the relevance of electromagnetics for the description of physical phenomena and technology. General competence - work individually with theory exercises - solve simple exercises.

Parts of the above may be taught in lectures or lab exercises.

Lectures and exercises.