David Tong Lectures Volume 2: Electromagnetism

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Volume 2: Electromagnetism

There are four forces at play in the universe. Gravity acts on the very biggest scales, and the two nuclear forces act on the very smallest. For everything inbetween, there is electromagnetism.

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The table of contents can be downloaded here.



Exercises

The exercises below have been created and curated over many decades by members of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge. The faculty have long had a generous policy of making the examples sheets (and indeed exam questions) publicly available. These questions are taken from a second year course called "Electromagnetism", and a third year course called "Electrodynamics", together with a first year course on "Vector Calculus". Each of these examples sheets is correlated to chapters in the book.

  • Chapters 1 and 2:   PDF    Electrostatics.

  • Chapter 3:   PDF    Magnetostatics.

  • Chapters 4 and 5:   PDF    Electrodynamics and Relativity.

  • Chapter 5:   PDF    Classical Field Theory.

  • Chapter 7:   PDF    Radiation.

  • Chapter 8:   PDF    Electromagnetism in Matter.

  • Appendix A:   PDF    Vector Calculus: Curves, surfaces, and volumes.

  • Appendix B:   PDF    Vector Calculus: Grad, div, and curl..

  • Appendix C:   PDF    Vector Calculus: Integral theorems.


Errata

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