Tong Lectures Volume 2: Electromagnetism

Errata for Electromagnetism

Here are a list of typos that I know about:

Preface

  • Page 1, first paragraph (yeah, not a good start): "is force" -> "is the force"

Chapter 1

  • Page 56, last line: "chose" -> "choose"

Chapter 2

  • Page 78, top line: "rise a" -> "rise to a". Third paragraph "allow for presence" -> "allow for the presence"
  • Page 103: "van der Graaf" -> "Van der Graaf"

Chapter 4

  • Page 128, Figure 4.2: The right-hand rule means that the electric and magnetic fields should be flipped.

Chapter 7

  • Page 249, below (7.57): "that oscillating" -> "the oscillating"
  • Page 250: The hairy ball theorem only requires that the vector field vanishes at a single point. The symmetry of the problem means that it must vanish at two or more points.
  • Page 250, below (7.61): "which denoted" -> "which is denoted"
  • Page 253: Remove subscript A on the integrals.
  • Page 270, above (7.157): "This means, that" -> "This means that"

Chapter 8

  • Page 278, below (8.8): "natural interpretation" -> "natural interpretations"
  • Page 288, equation (8.48): It should really be kx-\omega t, rather than kx+\omega t in the exponents, but this doesn't change what follows.
  • Page 303, section on Transparent Propagation: "ocurs" -> "occurs"
  • Page 308, below (8.126): "an segment" -> "a segment"
  • Page 333, below (8.229): "at near" -> "near"

Appendix C

  • Page 416: In equation (C.31), the partial differential of Q should be with respect to x on the right-hand side of the first line, and the integral should be with respect to y in the second line, with integrand Q(a,y) and Q(0,y).

My thanks to Cory Fletcher for pointing many of these out.