Classical Electromagnetic Theory
Professor Thomas Curtright
PHY650, Section E
MWF 12:00-1:15 room 203
Grade = HW + Midterm + Final
Midterm Exam 11:00-1:30 pm, Friday, 25 March, in the
Physics Library.
Final Exam, Take-Home, due
Wednesday, 11 May. Here it is: Final.
Enjoy!
Required text: John David Jackson, Classical Electrodynamics, Third Edition
(Wiley, 1999) [Jackson
errata]. We will cover Chapters 1 - 7. Homework
assignments are here.
Other reading material:
Some other
textbooks.
Some of my
notes.
A colloquium
on magnetism, including lots of history. More history is
here: Maxwell
and Riemann.
The content of the course is given, in summary, by the Lorentz force
law
and Maxwell's
equations:
where
where
An exact expression for the Coulomb constant is: 
