Course Objective

This course is desinged to introduce PhD level of Electromagnetic Theory. The subjects include the waveguides, radiating, systems, scattering and diffraction theory, special theory of relativity, dynamics of relativistic particles and radiation from relativistic particles.

Course Content

Diffraction and radiation; introduction to special relativity and the covariant formulation; radiation from moving charges; multiple expansions; radiation reaction.

Main Textbook:

Classical Electrodynamics, J.D. Jackson

Supplementary Textbook:

The Classical Theory of Fields, L.D. Landau and E.M. Lifshitz