Electrodynamics

Oberlin College Physics 411

Spring 2012

This World Wide Web page written by Dan Styer, Oberlin College Department of Physics and Astronomy;
http://www.oberlin.edu/physics/dstyer/Electrodynamics/;
last updated 11 January 2012.

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Teacher: Dan Styer

Course syllabus

Problem assignments

Handouts

Slabs of light (PDF)

How to start up slabs of light (PDF)

Vector calculus (PDF)

The divergence of the curl is zero (PDF)

Geometrical significance of the Laplacian (PDF)

Links

Michael Peskin attempts to read the mind of God.

Simulation of the start-up of electromagnetic radiation (by Wolfgang Christian, Mario Belloni, and Melissa Dancy). Click on "Creation of Electromagentic Waves."